Our method to build software compatible down to Windows 2000 using Visual Studio 2017 served us well for several months. And trust me, I had really hoped that Windows 2000 would be as low as we ever had to go. But the world of industrial manufacturing surprises you every day. So at some point, we inevitably stumbled …
In my previous blog series, I have shown how to write Win32 applications in 2020 using the amenities that modern C++ brings. Writing an application in 2020 doesn’t mean that we have to forget about 2000 though: The unrivaled compatibility of the Win32 API makes it possible to run your modern application even on …
I have embraced the Rust programming language since my unikernel thesis 3 years ago, and at my daily job at ENLYZE I get to use it everyday for implementing parsers for machine protocols. What had been missing so far was a Rust project that combines my passions for Rust and ReactOS.
Aiming to fix this, I’m …
I’m proud to release the first open-source product of ENLYZE today, a driver and tool to monitor serial/parallel port traffic on modern Windows systems (Windows XP and later). You can download it and get the source code from our GitHub page.
Naturally, we would have used the popular Sysinternals Portmon tool for …
User interfaces in 2020 need to consider many more details than those of previous generations. One of the biggest changes of the last decade is certainly the introduction of HiDPI displays, displays with much higher resolutions together with software using more pixels per GUI element. Win32 with its pixel-based …
We are now going to get into the nitty-gritty details of Win32 and how modern C++ can help us here: Pointers that free themselves, Universal C++ containers, String resources without regrets, Mastering the handle mess, Gracefully failing constructors, The only 
WndProc you’ll ever need, …
The ReactOS Build Environment (RosBE), our curated set of compilers and build tools, has just received a major upgrade.
After more than 7 years of using the same and now ancient GCC 4.7.2, ReactOS is finally going to be built with the help of a modern compiler (GCC 8.4.0). Among other things, the new version better …