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Thursday, August 28, 2003

Learning from the old new thing

Found this these days:

Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays.

A small arrow. Everybody knows this one: It's the shortcut overlay.
A hand, palm up. This is the "sharing" overlay. A folder with this overlay is the root of a file share.
A downward-pointing blue arrow. This is the "to be written to CD" overlay.
A pair of blue swirling arrows. This sometimes baffles people. This means that the item is available offline. (You have to enable offline folders to get this.)
A black clock. This really baffles people. This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.
[The Old New Thing]

Love to read Raymond Chen and learn about all the hidden, unknown and backgrounds on Windows. My favourites: What is in the "Windows 95 Special Edition" box? and Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone.

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Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:29:23 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:54:03 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Raymond Chen is about to publish a book with Addison-Wesley-

Chen shows you:

What vending machines can teach you about effective user interfaces
All you ever wanted to know about window and dialog management
Why performance optimization can be so counterintuitive
An under-the-hood look at COM and the Visual C++ compiler
Backwards compatibility: What Windows does, and what you need to do
Windows program security holes most developers don't know about

The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows ISBN: 0321440307

www.awprofessional.com/title/0321440307 Here is a link to the book page.

Eric

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