I got to do this fun Channel9 video the other day with Charles Torre and Tim Sneath . In it we talk about some of the fundamentals and architecture of the underlying composition system for Windows Presentation Foundation and for the Desktop Window Manager...

As mentioned in earlier posts , by far the most important aspect of the DWM is the fact that application windows are redirected to render offscreen, and then the DWM is responsible for compositing those windows to the screen. So, how exactly does that...