Programming Windows

Thanks to the stratospheric success of Windows in the 1990s, Microsoft was initially blind to…

Inspired by deficiencies in DDE and OLE 1.0, the Component Object Model (COM) was a…

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows with inter-process communications capabilities based on OLE.

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) brought compound document capabilities to Windows, starting in version 3.0.

Using Dynamic Data Exchange was next to impossible unless you were using Visual Basic with…

In another sidebar, the inventors of BASIC had some choice words for Bill Gates, Microsoft,…

In this sidebar to the Programming Windows series, a key architect of the first IBM…

Early GUIs like Windows were easy to use, but they also provided advanced system-level features…

6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different…

MFC allowed C++ developers to quickly generate skeleton code for even the most complex of…

After it finally shipped Windows NT, Microsoft spent the next five years steadily improving the…

Between 1991 and 1993, Microsoft dogfooded its own code and fought feature creep and bugs…

Before there was Windows NT, there was NT, a 32-bit portable operating system that would…

Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good…

OOPs! By the 1990s, Windows application developers were consumed by the move to Object-Oriented Programming,…

Say hello to C++, an object-oriented superset of C that is still one of the…