The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Urban and suburban camouflage

Urban and suburban camouflage

Raymond Chen July 4, 2017 Jul 4, 2017 07/4/17

When you have a city, you also need infrastructure, but the buildings for that infrastructure tend to be ugly, so you now have the need to camouflage your infrastructure as something inoffensive. And not just utilities need camouflage. An oil company might need to disguise a well. Near Raleigh, a water pump station is disguised as...

Emulating the C# <CODE>using</CODE> keyword in C++

Emulating the C# `using` keyword in C++

Raymond Chen July 3, 2017 Jul 3, 2017 07/3/17

C# has a very convenient using statement which ensures that an object is Dispose()d when control exits the block. C++ has a generalization of this concept with RAII types, but things get tricky when you have tasks, lambda capture, and the need to explicitly Close() the hat pointer. Here we go. Here's one attempt, for C++/CX hat pointers: ...