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Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Error reporting

January 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023 01/31/23

Raymond Chen

If you can't get back to where you started, who you gonna call?

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: COM without COM

January 30, 2023 Jan 30, 2023 01/30/23

Raymond Chen

Also known as Nano-COM.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Unwinding the stack

January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023 01/27/23

Raymond Chen

Reducing stack usage.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Bypassing the context callback

January 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 01/26/23

Raymond Chen

Reducing stack usage.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: Unblocking the outgoing thread

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the problem of the synchronous apartment-changing callback: Let the outgoing thread do whatever it wants to do next.

Inside C++/WinRT: Apartment switching: The basic idea

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Raymond Chen

Getting back to where you started.

Inside C++/WinRT: Coroutine completions: The oversimplified version

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

Raymond Chen

Resuming the coroutine when the asynchronous work completes.

Windows Runtime asynchronous operations can fail in two different ways, so make sure you get them both

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Raymond Chen

Fail me now or fail me later.