What’s the deal with OLDNAMES.LIB?

Raymond Chen July 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020 07/30/20

For backward compatibility with pre-standard C.

C++/WinRT gotcha: Setting properties incorrectly

Raymond Chen July 29, 2020 Jul 29, 2020 07/29/20

A bit too much search/replace during porting.

How do I set multiple items to a Windows Runtime vector in a single call?

Raymond Chen July 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020 07/27/20

It depends on the language projection.

C++/WinRT doesn’t let your coroutine cheat death, but it does get to say good-bye

Raymond Chen July 24, 2020 Jul 24, 2020 07/24/20

Some manual cleanup.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 2

Raymond Chen July 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020 07/23/20

You can also take more proactive steps.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 1

Raymond Chen July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Well, one way is to poll for it.

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template, returning to enable_if

Raymond Chen July 21, 2020 Jul 21, 2020 07/21/20

Going back to the old standby to filter out unwanted specializations.

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template, addressing the calling convention conundrum

Raymond Chen July 20, 2020 Jul 20, 2020 07/20/20

Finding a template metaprogramming trick that works.