Bugslayer: GUI Control to Major Tom

摘要

In my 14 years of Windows development, the absolute best demo I''ve ever seen was at the Longhorn Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in 2003. While sessions on Windows~® Presentation Foundation and the Visual Studio~® 2005 betas excited many attendees, the program manager for Active Accessibility~® got the only standing ovation that I''ve ever seen at a technical conference. He demonstrated a build of "Longhorn," which is now Windows Vista™, that allowed separate input queues for a GUI application. His demo was playing Solitaire in the foreground while a Microsoft~® .NET-based application using the underlying automation APIs from Active Accessibility added and removed hardware devices from Device Manager in the background! He even clicked around in the Device Manager and all input was ignored because the controller program had complete control of that input queue.