The Old New Thing

The C++/WinRT “capture” function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world

Raymond ChenSeptember 17, 2020Sep 17, 202009/17/20

Simplifying a common COM pattern.

What’s up with error C4838: a WinRT type cannot be a member of a union, and how can I work around it?

Raymond ChenSeptember 14, 2020Sep 14, 202009/14/20

A restriction left over from C++03.

The macros for declaring COM interfaces, revisited: C++ implementation

Raymond ChenSeptember 11, 2020Sep 11, 202009/11/20

Now to make things concrete.

The macros for declaring COM interfaces, revisited: C++ version

Raymond ChenSeptember 10, 2020Sep 10, 202009/10/20

Apparently there's this new language people are using nowadays.

The macros for declaring COM interfaces, revisited: C version

Raymond ChenSeptember 9, 2020Sep 9, 202009/9/20

Following the expansion.

C++/WinRT injects additional constructors into each runtime class

Raymond ChenSeptember 7, 2020Sep 7, 202009/7/20

For dealing with the objects as the smart pointers they actually are.