What APIs do I own?

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Rosyna — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:19:49 GMT

Wow, that *thoroughly* answered my questions. Thanks.

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Mike G — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:13:04 GMT

Interesting post! Roughly how many lines of code does that run to?

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Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:20:29 GMT

Hey Mike --

I haven't a clue, I have always sucked at those sorts of estimates. I did manage to remove about 1000 lines of it in Longhorn by streamlining a few things, though. Negative production that week? :-)

I suppose I should run one of those K-LOC tools on it all one of these days, though. It's one of those cool numbers you can bat around at [geeky] parties....

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Mike G — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:26:14 GMT

I used a little utility called "Counting" last week, which gives code/comment line counts. You can get it from here: http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/data/data-misc/fileinformation/article.php/c4547/

Neat little interface and very quick.

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Daniel Garlans — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:17:44 GMT

Michael, when you develop these API's, do you design the whole thing from the bottom up, or do "they" give you some prototypes and a specification to work off of?

In other words, do you get to develop the whole thing or do you have to just implement what they tell you to?

I'm just curious as to how much freedom they give you to work on these API's :)

re: What APIs do I own?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:22:19 GMT

Hey Mike --

Someone pointed me to an internal tool. :-)

Ok, all of the above stuff totals in at around just over 78,000 lines. About half is code I wrote from scratch (projects like MSLU and MSKLC), aznd of the other half some that I wrote, some that I have modified, and some that I just maintain.

If memory serves, the Access wizard project was a bit larger than that, but that was mostly VBA so I don't think it counts. :-)

re: What APIs do I own?

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:28:54 GMT

Hi Daniel,

Many of the APIs listed there predate me, and I was a mere external user of them for years. But the stuff I have developed I have so far just about always been the person who wrote the design doc (I have also written many design docs for features in which I was interested but which I did not end up implementing myself).

(see http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/03/346090.aspx for my opinions on design docs)

:-)

In this group, devs have a lot of say in the design of what they develop. And there is a lot of meeting and discussing and deciding to help shape how it ends up....

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Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:38:39 GMT

Uh oh, forgot a project!

Its actually more like 103K lines when you include it all....

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Mihai — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:21:16 GMT

Interesting post.
Now two questions:
- if we have a problem with some API, where can we complain?
- can we play Hangman on the "stars API"?
Is there an 'a'? Is there an "Ex" ? :-)

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Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:30:45 GMT

Hello Mihai!

>>> - if we have a problem with some API, where can we complain?

Well, you can always complain here, of course. Especially if it is one I own!

>>> - can we play Hangman on the "stars API"?
>>> Is there an 'a'? Is there an "Ex" ? :-)

Heh heh heh -- no clues, like I said I even added extra stars to keep people from trying to guess. You'll find out soon enough....

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Mihai — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:32:06 GMT

The complain: a full family of Enum functions.
On the happy side, none of them are yours :-)

The functions do not take and extra parameter that can be used to transfer a pointer to a structure or a class.
As a result, you have to use global variables or classes with static members (which is pretty much the same thing).

Some functions get it right.
Here is a list (probably not complete, and targeting I18N/L10N API):

--- The Good ---
EnumFonts
EnumFontFamiliesEx
EnumLanguageGroupLocales
EnumSystemLanguageGroups
EnumResourceLanguages
EnumResourceNames
EnumResourceTypes
EnumUILanguages

--- The Bad ---
EnumCalendarInfo
EnumCalendarInfoEx
EnumDateFormats
EnumDateFormatsEx
EnumSystemCodePages
EnumSystemGeoID
EnumSystemLocales
EnumTimeFormats

--- The Ugly :-) ---
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re: What APIs do I own?

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:58:29 GMT

Hmmmm... not sure I understand. But you are right, I don't own any of them....

LCMapString's other job

Sorting It All Out — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:56:23 GMT

To me, the NLS API function LCMapString has a full-time job, one that is crucial to the fundamental fabric...

Is CharNextExA broken?

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:04:13 GMT

Jochen Kalmbach asks over in the Suggestion Box: Hi Michael! Short question: Is "CharNextExA" broken

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Random832 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:24:13 GMT

You recently linked back to this article - just out of curiosity, what are the "Longhorn" (i.e. Vista) APIs that you starred out?

re: What APIs do I own?

Michael S. Kaplan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:38:22 GMT

Those were the new name-based "Ex" versions of functions that I own already (discussed here) and such. Things I have talked about other places... though technically now I own none of them....

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LCMapString's *other* job

Is CharNextExA broken?

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