Future of Concurrency and Parallelism

Here is a Joe Duffy interview. I first read Concurrent Programming on Windows in 2013. Here are the CHESS Tools There is also Midori which I haven't heard that much about lately but there is a C# OS called Cosmos and MOSA. I really haven't had much time to work with CHESS. Other than to write my own MSBuild wrapper.

COM

I first learned about Microsoft's Component Object Model in 1999. I read and learned the model through MSDN libraries and magazines. I think my first was a MSJ. I have all of my DVD archives. About three or four years ago I bought Don Box's "Essential COM".I partly read this book in an old MSDN library. And used Microsoft's M Language.

How to luanch the old style Control Panel in Windows 10.

To launch the old style Control Panel in Windows 10. You could go into the system files and find "control.exe" and pin it to the start menu. One good improvement in Windows 10 was the improvement to the environment variable settings. You can also launch the old -sytle control panel following this article.

Building Sandcastle Documentation in Visual Studio

Here is a nice article on building MSDN style documentation with sandcastle from The Microsoft Gulf Technical Community.

Building the Windows Research Kernel.

To build the Windows research kernel after to obtain it legally from your academic institution like I did. You may need to download some Visual C/C++ runtime libraries but after that the kernel should kinda be sandboxed and build on Windows XP or later. I'm building it on Windows 8.1. We will be building WRKv1.2.

So open a command prompt and enter:

 set wrk= "path to WRK1.2"  
 set arch=x86 [or amd64]  
 path %wrk%\tools\%arch%;%path%  
 cd %wrk%\base\ntos  
 nmake -nologo %arch%=  

This will produce kernel files in BASE\NTOS\BUILD\EXE\%arch%

I really don't recommend booting the kernel on anything other than XP, but you can try and there should be instructions that came with the WRK 1.2 on how to do that. Pius you can read David Cutler's original design notes. Also you might get like I did a project called "Project OZ" which you can use the kernel with.