The Old New Thing

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Bypassing the context callback

January 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 01/26/23

Raymond Chen

Reducing stack usage.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Unblocking the outgoing thread

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the problem of the synchronous apartment-changing callback: Let the outgoing thread do whatever it wants to do next.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: The basic idea

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Raymond Chen

Getting back to where you started.

Inside C++/WinRT: Coroutine completions: The oversimplified version

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

Raymond Chen

Resuming the coroutine when the asynchronous work completes.

How can I call a method on a derived class from a base class, say, to get a strong reference to the containing object?

January 20, 2023 Jan 20, 2023 01/20/23

Raymond Chen

A variety of patterns are available.

Windows Runtime asynchronous operations can fail in two different ways, so make sure you get them both

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Raymond Chen

Fail me now or fail me later.

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking a user by modifying that user’s files

January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23

Raymond Chen

You're just attacking yourself.

A trio of dubious denial-of-service security vulnerability reports which are just style points piled on top of nothing

January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23

Raymond Chen

You could have accomplished the same thing with a garbage file.

Making C++ primitive types meaningfully movable when they have sentinel values

January 16, 2023 Jan 16, 2023 01/16/23

Raymond Chen

The value actually moves now.

Adventures in application compatibility: Querying for an internal interface

January 13, 2023 Jan 13, 2023 01/13/23

Raymond Chen

Reaching in and fiddling the internal knobs.