The Old New Thing

Why can’t you return an IAsync­Action from a coroutine that also does a co_await?

April 16, 2020 Apr 16, 2020 04/16/20

Raymond Chen

You already returned. No take-backs.

When I ask the GetIpAddrTable function to sort the results, how are they sorted?

April 15, 2020 Apr 15, 2020 04/15/20

Raymond Chen

Nothing particularly fancy. Just plain numerical order.

If one program blocks shutdown, then all programs block shutdown

April 14, 2020 Apr 14, 2020 04/14/20

Raymond Chen

We're all in this together, as far as the Blocked Shutdown Resolver is concerned.

The type-dependent type or value that is independent of the type

April 13, 2020 Apr 13, 2020 04/13/20

Raymond Chen

To delay the evaluation until instantiation.

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5: Waiting synchronously from a thread that may already be the right thread

April 10, 2020 Apr 10, 2020 04/10/20

Raymond Chen

You might already be there.

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4: Waiting synchronously from a background thread

April 9, 2020 Apr 9, 2020 04/9/20

Raymond Chen

Using things you already have.

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3: The other cases and why they aren’t interesting

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Raymond Chen

We handled only one case, but that's the only one worth handling.

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2: The synchronous coroutine

April 7, 2020 Apr 7, 2020 04/7/20

Raymond Chen

It awaits without waiting.

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1: Initial plunge

April 6, 2020 Apr 6, 2020 04/6/20

Raymond Chen

Forcing the delegate to run in a specific apartment.

An observation about what people used iPads for in the early days

April 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020 04/3/20

Raymond Chen

Does everything you need, if you also bring an assistant.