The Old New Thing

My summer vacation: The Tower of London and Kensington Palace

November 29, 2019 Nov 29, 2019 11/29/19

Raymond Chen

Doing the admissions price math.

Using contexts to return to a COM apartment later

November 29, 2019 Nov 29, 2019 11/29/19

Raymond Chen

You can go back home again.

How do you get into a context via IContext­Callback::Context­Callback?

November 28, 2019 Nov 28, 2019 11/28/19

Raymond Chen

Piggybacking on the internal infrastructure.

Setting up private COM contexts to allow yourself to unload cleanly

November 27, 2019 Nov 27, 2019 11/27/19

Raymond Chen

Your private little enclave.

Yo dawg, I hear you like COM apartments, so I put a COM apartment in your COM apartment so you can COM apartment while you COM apartment

November 26, 2019 Nov 26, 2019 11/26/19

Raymond Chen

Or maybe this is subletting? Airbnb for COM apartments?

A slightly less brief introduction to COM apartments (but it’s still brief)

November 25, 2019 Nov 25, 2019 11/25/19

Raymond Chen

Managing the multithreading.

My summer vacation: Speaking German (wait, what?)

November 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019 11/22/19

Raymond Chen

But you went to England and France.

How do I make a clone of a Windows Runtime vector in C++/WinRT?

November 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019 11/22/19

Raymond Chen

You copy it into your own vector, but make sure you copy what you think you're copying.

Why does the Alpha AXP predict a coroutine transfer the way it does?

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19

Raymond Chen

Working out the possibilities.

The case of the Uuid­Create­Sequential that didn’t use the MAC address

November 20, 2019 Nov 20, 2019 11/20/19

Raymond Chen

If you want to use it, make sure it's good.