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old-new-win32api
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Do you have any recommendations?
I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.
- Frontman of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, is an active developer on GitHub
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Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x.
While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS.
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
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KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working permanently
Some registry keys also have The Old New Thing posts by Raymond Chen [1] /s
[1] https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api#registry
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Lookin for a decent C++ data structure resource
Lucky you, Raymond Chen did an overview in his blog series "Inside STL". You can view it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane
Yes, Raymond Chen describes such fixes in [several blog posts](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) and in his book The Old New Thing. Check the old posts, back at the beginning. There are posts about to which lengths they went to ensure buggy applications still worked after an update or a fix.
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Is there a known reason that Vista's startup screen was so plain?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Technical articles recommendation
A couple of blogs as an example: - Raymond Chen - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ - Pavel Yosifovich - https://scorpiosoftware.net/ - Adam Sawicki - https://asawicki.info/index - Matt Pettineo - https://therealmjp.github.io/ - Scratchapixel - https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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Ask HN: Who are tech bloggers with a good archive?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- Why is the FAT directory creation time 24 bits and not 16 bits like the modified time?
winforms
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Ask HN: Any way to write a simple desktop app anymore?
Windows Forms[0] is still alive and will never die, and very low overhead to start with, and works on new and shiny .NET 8.
If Linux or macOS, you can use AvaloniaUI[1] instead which is sufficiently advanced but assumes some prior knowledge.
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/docs/getting-st...
[1] https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/get-started/
- A GitHub issue suggests the removal of the WebBrowser control in WinForms. If you think this is a bad idea, be sure to voice your disapproval on the issue!
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Duda carrera: C#/.NET vs. Node/Express
Winforms: Licencia MIT.
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We Got the Generics We Have (2022)
3. Therefore reified generics are not possible to implement in a backwards compatible way.
Ok, sure, but if you instead a new generic collection types and leave the old ones alone, you don’t have to worry about breaking existing compiled code.
This comment about C# suggests a lack of familiarity with the approach C# took:
> C# made the opposite choice — to update their VM, and invalidate their existing libraries and all the user code that dependend on it.
All of the pre-generic C# libraries continue to exist to this day (ArrayList, HashTable, and the non-generic IEnumerable). Applications that used them never stopped working. New code uses the generic collections (List and Dictionary).
Anyways, I think the costs that Java is currently paying for non-reified generics (reflection, performance, and type safety mentioned in the article) is not worth the backwards comparability with the 20 year old J2SE 1.4. The price C# pays for making a backwards incompatible generics (mostly some minor annoyance when designing a collection class implementing IEnumerable) is worth it at this point.
P.S. ok, I do admit that C# forking the collection library is still causing ongoing maintenance work 18 years later: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/pull/8673
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When A .NET Developer Learns Blazor
No, it is fully supported and in active development. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
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WPF Roadmap 2023
No, it's still under active development/maintenance. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/graphs/contributors
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Where are these images stored?
The image is kept in-memory— https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/blob/main/src/System.Windows.Forms/src/System/Windows/Forms/PictureBox.cs
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Does anyone know how to make a UITypeEditor for Winforms that works in .NET 6?
Appears that this has been broken for a while. Seems it has something to do with the new designers being run out of process.
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Why is Microsoft's C# not taught in most universities and Java is instead?
Also, the runtime that C# runs on, is also completely open source as well (https://github.com/dotnet/runtime); ASP.NET which is used to create web apps in C# is open as well (https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore). WinForms/WPF, used to make desktop apps in C# is also open source (https://github.com/dotnet/wpf, https://github.com/dotnet/winforms). All of the source code for these are on the dotnet Github page: https://github.com/dotnet and most are all MIT-licensed.
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Announcing .NET 7 Preview 5
You'll likely have to open an issue against https://github.com/dotnet/winforms. If you've already opened an issue here, then feel free to link and I might be able to provide suggestions on how to improve the triage process.
What are some alternatives?
anbox - Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
GameStretcher - Run 2D Windows Games (GDI, DirectDraw, D3D9) with a stretchable window, and a SuperXBR upscale filter
Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home
AnyAny - C++17 library for comfortable and efficient dynamic polymorphism
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
apps - a monorepo of all my python scripts, modules, and packages
Unity-WinForms - A Windows Forms port for Unity3d
too-many-lists - Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists
Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications