Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing

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If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.

July 25th, 2023 34 reactions When building a new thing, a good first step is to build a thing that does nothing. That way, you at least know you are starting from a good place. If I’m building a component that performs an action, I’ll probably do it in these steps: Step zero is to write a standalone program to perform the action. This ensures that the action is even possible. Once I have working code to perform the action, I write a component that doesn’t perform an action. That at least makes sure I know how to build a component. Next, I register the component for the action, but have…

Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing

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