The Old New Thing

C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (WPF and WinForms edition)

March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

Raymond Chen

More magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.

C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (UWP edition)

March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19

Raymond Chen

Magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.

How do I wait for the completion of the delegate I passed to Core­Dispatcher.Run­Async and Thread­Pool.Run­Async?

March 27, 2019 Mar 27, 2019 03/27/19

Raymond Chen

You'll need your own signal.

When do Core­Dispatcher.Run­Async and Thread­Pool.Run­Async actions complete?

March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019 03/26/19

Raymond Chen

When the delegate returns, not when it completes.

What does the N in nmake stand for?

March 25, 2019 Mar 25, 2019 03/25/19

Raymond Chen

It's old now, but at the time, it was new.

Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019

March 22, 2019 Mar 22, 2019 03/22/19

Raymond Chen

For all your retro-computing gawking.

Turning anything into a fire-and-forget coroutine

March 22, 2019 Mar 22, 2019 03/22/19

Raymond Chen

Turning on the metaprogramming.

Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget

March 21, 2019 Mar 21, 2019 03/21/19

Raymond Chen

Putting it at the call site instead of in the function itself.

winrt::fire_and_forget was too forgetful

March 20, 2019 Mar 20, 2019 03/20/19

Raymond Chen

Usually, you don't care when it finishes, as long as it does.

Why does my app’s uninstaller disappear from the Start menu?

March 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019 03/19/19

Raymond Chen

Keeping things tidy.