New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

When features collide (aka Your LCID sucks, but sometimes the bug sucks more)

Sorting it all Out — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:02:54 GMT

Regular readers might recall a long ago blog entitled New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

A way better model for features, part 2

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:32:33 GMT

You may have seen the first part of this series ( A way better model for features ). Think of this as

Not everything you might want out of a GetDateFormatEx, but think of it as a fixer-upper

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:00:58 GMT

Some may remember when I asked the question Why doesn't GetDateFormat take a CALID? Some will recall

Nobody likes change

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:24:25 GMT

Picture a Friends episode - the one entitled The One With The Morning After. Chandler, Monica, Joey,...

re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

laura — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:45:57 GMT

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re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:08:06 GMT

Looking at other Win32 API functions, I do not see a strong precedent of the number suffix mechanism (which seems more common in COM-based implementations). There is a wide range of possibilities (including the huge number of weird things that GDI does for the text extent functions), though....

I am having trouble seeing what precisely is so bad about the ExEx for tha few functions that already had Ex versions, though. Could you explainI am not sure I see it as particuloar hard to read or as particularly unprofessional.

I mean beyond the reminder of my ex, that is. :-)

Seriously, could you give me a little more of your thinking on this?

re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

PatriotB — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:30:27 GMT

:( Just thought I'd offer my two cents on how to make the Windows API set the best it can be.

Plus, anyone using the new functions should be under the understanding that they are "preliminary and subject to change." You could even define the ExEx version as a macro for these users.

re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

Michael S. Kaplan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:24:30 GMT

Hi PatriotB,

I'm sorry to say, but what IE7 here is not really a guideline for the Win32 API (nor is MLang for that matter). But punishing anyone who has started working to use the new functions is not really a good answer either....

re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

PatriotB — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:13:52 GMT

Seriously, can you guys PLEASE not use ExEx? It's hard to read, unprofessional, and not scalable at all.

Plus, it is inconsistent with other APIs. For example, IE 7 is introducing a function CreateURLMonikerEx2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/moniker/reference/functions/createurlmonikerex2.asp?frame=true). Can you please use Ex2 (EnumCalendarInfoEx2) instead? Please say it isn't too late to make this change. Make it now, before Vista is released, otherwise it will be too late and it will be around forever.

re: New in Vista: What's your name? Who's your daddy?

Nathan — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:16:44 GMT

That ExEx thing is horrible, come on you guys can do better than that.