The Old New Thing

Bonus operations for C++/WinRT iterators: The IIterator<T>

September 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020 09/30/20

Raymond Chen

The equivalent of an input iterator.

How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994?

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20

Raymond Chen

Unsophisticated pattern matching.

git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 9: How can I bulk-revert an entire repo to an earlier commit?

September 28, 2020 Sep 28, 2020 09/28/20

Raymond Chen

Take me back to a simpler time.

Structured binding may be the new hotness, but we’ll always have std::tie

September 25, 2020 Sep 25, 2020 09/25/20

Raymond Chen

Sometimes the old things are what you need.

Inside C++/WinRT: How does C++/WinRT represent ABI types?

September 24, 2020 Sep 24, 2020 09/24/20

Raymond Chen

Hiding in the internal impl::abi template.

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 3

September 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 09/23/20

Raymond Chen

Automatic cancellation propagation is here.

Why does the Disk Cleanup tool’s Windows Update Cleanup take so long and consume so much CPU?

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

Raymond Chen

It's doing some real work.

Git commit-tree parlor tricks, Part 8: I just rebased my branch, but now I realize that I should have merged

September 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020 09/21/20

Raymond Chen

You can rewrite the tree while preserving files.

I get a weird error about no matching function when I try to use winrt::capture

September 18, 2020 Sep 18, 2020 09/18/20

Raymond Chen

The confusing error message strikes again.

The C++/WinRT “capture” function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world

September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

Raymond Chen

Simplifying a common COM pattern.