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September 2009 - Posts

I can make it arbitrarily fast if I don’t actually have to make it work.

Digging way back into my pre-Microsoft days, I was recently reminded of a story that I believe was told to me by Mary Shaw back when I took her Computer Optimization class at Carnegie-Mellon… During the class, Mary told an anecdote about a developer “Sue” Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:49 PM by LarryOsterman | 26 Comments

Building a flicker free volume control

When we shipped Windows Vista, one of the really annoying UI annoyances with the volume control was that whenever you resized it, it would flicker.  To be more specific, the right side of the control would flicker – the rest didn’t flicker (which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:50 PM by LarryOsterman | 30 Comments

The story behind the mysterious “Ding” in Windows Vista.

I just ran into this fairly old post on Channel 9.  mstefan reported that his applications played a “Ding” noise when selecting an item in a listview (or tree) control.   It turns out that I’d had the problem independently reported to me by Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:29 PM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments

What’s the difference between GetTickCount and timeGetTime?

I’ve always believed that the most frequently used multimedia API in winmm.dll was the PlaySound API.  However I recently was working with the results of some static analysis tools that were run on the Windows 7 codebase and I realized that in fact Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 2:31 PM by LarryOsterman | 26 Comments
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Digging into the history bin (AKA: Microsoft Developer says that Windows is useless)

As I was writing my “25 years of Larry’s history at Microsoft in 1 year chunks” blog posts, I spent a fair amount of time digging through my email archives (trying to figure out exactly what happened at what time).  During this, I ran into a link Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:49 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
 
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