I love Raymond--he's got an erudite knowledge of Windows lore. The fellow delivers such good Microsoft standup that you can almost imagine the deadpans as he do

I love Raymond--he's got an erudite knowledge of Windows lore. The fellow delivers such good Microsoft standup that you can almost imagine the deadpans as he does them. Despite the constant head shaking directed at Microsoft, you can't help but laugh at how things are. Nonetheless, Raymond has rescued me many times when looking for the Windows equivalent of doing something. Here's one of Raymond's Win32 API write ups/hacks for enumerating threads in a process: "The tool helper library is sort of the black sheep of Win32. It grew out of the 16-bit TOOLHELP library, which provided services for system debugging tools to do things like take stack traces and enumerate all the memory in the system. The original incarnation of Win32 didn't incorporate it; it wasn't until Windows 95 that a 32-bit version of the tool helper library sort of got bolted onto the side of Win32." "That's what happens when you're the black sheep of the Win32 API." http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/23/537856.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/23/53785...