It’s been a busy few months and I haven’t had a chance to blog much about my work or kernel technologies. These are a couple of posts, I wrote for the appdev blog on the new background model in Windows 8 for Metro style apps. They talk about...

Continuing our series on DLLs and their optional entry point DllMain, this is going to be a simple tip which allows your process to exit quickly without doing unnecessary work. When a process is cleanly exiting, each DLL loaded in the process memory receives...

The DllMain is an optional entry point into a dynamic link library (DLL) which is called by the system when the DLL is first loaded into a process or when it is unloaded from a process. Think of it as a constructor and destructor of the DLL. In addition...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. This is a quick recap of all the posts in the threadpool series and the methods supported by the wrapper classes.   Introduction to the Windows Threadpool (Part 1) Threadpool Work item priority Introduction...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. Till now we have seen how to use the default process-wide threadpool to submit work items, how to create your own private threadpool and how to create timer objects to execute callbacks when the timer fires...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. The threadpool provides timer functionality with the SetThreadpoolTimer and CreateThreadpoolTimer functions; the ability to call your functions at specified times. In this blog post I will show how to use...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. In the previous posts, I talked about using the windowsthreadpool::SimpleThreadPool class to queue work items to the process-wide threadpool and queuing work items with different priorities. In this post...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. In the previous post, I talked about how to queue work items to the process-wide system threadpool using TrySubmitThreadpoolCallback. In this post, I will talk about work item priority and how to queue low...

Download source code from MSDN Code Gallery. I regularly receive feedback that the Win32 Threadpool API is complex and there is a need for better examples. To improve this situation, I decided to create three wrapper C++ classes which provide...

Hi, My name is Hari Pulapaka and I am a Program Manager in the Windows Kernel Team. I will use this blog to talk about some of the technologies I work on, document best practices and generally provide developer guidance for kernel related win32 APIs or...