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The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 25 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He currently appears regularly on MSDN Channel 9’s One Dev Minute channel in the One Dev Question video series.

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Additional notes on the various patterns for passing C-style arrays across the Windows Runtime boundary

Additional notes on the various patterns for passing C-style arrays across the Windows Runtime boundary

December 3rd, 2020

Filling in some of the implicit details.

How can I check whether the user has disconnected from the session?

How can I check whether the user has disconnected from the session?

December 2nd, 2020

You'll have to ask Terminal Services.

Did Windows ever find solutions for programs that crashed?

Did Windows ever find solutions for programs that crashed?

December 1st, 2020

It did on occasion.

What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner?

What are the requirements for the built-in Windows 10 camera-based barcode scanner?

November 30th, 2020

Basically, it needs to be able to get a good picture.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Miscellany

November 27th, 2020

A few other columns.

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces: Why is System doing so much stuff?

November 26th, 2020

The System does many things, or at least many things are blamed on it.

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

Preliminary notes on analyzing Disk and File I/O performance with ETW traces

November 25th, 2020

Deciphering the numbers.

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

Why does the disk optimizer put boot files at low-numbered sectors?

November 24th, 2020

Taking advantage of disk geometry.

Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one

Virtual desktops are an end-user window management feature, not a programmatic one

November 23rd, 2020

It's for users to organize their windows, not for programs to organize them.

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

How thread-safe is the Windows Runtime PropertySet object?

November 20th, 2020

It's thread-safe as far as it goes, but you may want to go further.