I just want know what exact difference between ComPtr and CComPtr, and whether ComPtr::As() is analogue of CComPtr::QueryInterface()? I read documentation of both, but there is no clear answer to t...

I tried compiling my project as usual after the update (15.8.0). I set showincludes to yes to figure out where the error originates, but it's all system code. Starting with stdafx.cpp, it goes thro...

My company has many old projects that are written in vb6. We have some reusable software components which are written in ATL/C++. We're now considering to rewrite our app with UWP but it seems that...

I have followed the example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/jj822931.aspx to create an In-proc Classic COM DLL using Windows Runtime Template Library (WRL). I am also able to ...

I'm trying to obtain a Windows::Devices::Usb::UsbDevice object referencing a specific USB device I have in order to pass it to a 3rd party plugin. Due to project limitations, I cannot use the C++/C...

I have been experimenting with WinRT components using C#, C++/CX and WRL in C++. So far I managed to do everything I tried even if compared to COM some stuff have changed and are either confusing o...

I want to write a WinRT component with async support using WRL, but I found create_async() is undefined even I included the ppltask.h and using namespace concurrency How to create a background task...