The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Aug 6, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 4
Moving things around if possible.
Aug 5, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 3
Forcing an object into the global interface table.
Aug 4, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 2
Using a reference stored in the global interface table.
Aug 3, 2026
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 1
Looking for a COM reference that is between strong and weak.
Jul 31, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 10
What failure of the context callback means.
Jul 30, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 9
Maybe it doesn't matter.
Jul 29, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 8
Exceptions hiding in lambda captures.
Jul 28, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 7
Further explorations into exception safety.
Jul 27, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6
Exception-safety, the invisible bug.