The Old New Thing

When should I use delayed-marshaling when creating an agile reference?

Raymond ChenDecember 2, 2019Dec 2, 201912/2/19

It's a balance between doing more work now in anticipation of saving work later.

My summer vacation: The Tower of London and Kensington Palace

Raymond ChenNovember 29, 2019Nov 29, 201911/29/19

Doing the admissions price math.

Using contexts to return to a COM apartment later

Raymond ChenNovember 29, 2019Nov 29, 201911/29/19

You can go back home again.

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

Raymond ChenNovember 28, 2019Nov 28, 201911/28/19

Piggybacking on the internal infrastructure.

Setting up private COM contexts to allow yourself to unload cleanly

Raymond ChenNovember 27, 2019Nov 27, 201911/27/19

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

Raymond ChenNovember 26, 2019Nov 26, 201911/26/19

Or maybe this is subletting? Airbnb for COM apartments?

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

Raymond ChenNovember 25, 2019Nov 25, 201911/25/19

Managing the multithreading.

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

Raymond ChenNovember 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19

But you went to England and France.

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

Raymond ChenNovember 22, 2019Nov 22, 201911/22/19

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?

Raymond ChenNovember 21, 2019Nov 21, 201911/21/19

Working out the possibilities.