The Old New Thing

It’s great that you provide operator overloads, but it’s also nice to have names

June 5, 2023 Jun 5, 2023 06/5/23

Raymond Chen

Avoiding the need to invoke the operator explicitly as a specialized template, among other things.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 3

June 2, 2023 Jun 2, 2023 06/2/23

Raymond Chen

Extending to std::weak_ptr.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 2

June 1, 2023 Jun 1, 2023 06/1/23

Raymond Chen

Working out the boilerplate.

C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 1

May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023 05/31/23

Raymond Chen

Assessing the state of affairs.

How do I change the directory Windows uses for user profiles? revisited

May 30, 2023 May 30, 2023 05/30/23

Raymond Chen

You can still do it, but it's not really supported.

On writing functions that accept any specialization of a C++ template type

May 29, 2023 May 29, 2023 05/29/23

Raymond Chen

There are the obvious arguments, the non-obvious arguments, and the invisible arguments.

Getting a strong reference from the this pointer too late

May 26, 2023 May 26, 2023 05/26/23

Raymond Chen

Once destruction begins, strong references mean nothing.

How can I trigger a recalc of the mouse cursor after I changed some of my internal application state?, follow-up

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23

Raymond Chen

You still need to filter to your window, so you don't mess up another window on the same thread.

Don’t name your header file security.h either

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

Raymond Chen

You may be overriding an SDK header by mistake.

On creating (and using) a transforming iterator

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Raymond Chen

It lets you change the thing being iterated over, on the fly.