From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 11/4/2025 5:17 PM, John Dallman wrote:   
   > In article <10e5ei3$1dacc$1@dont-email.me>, arne@vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)   
   > wrote:   
   >> I think you would need to wrap:   
   >>   
   >> --(call)-->[WinRT API in .winmd file]C++/CX wrapper   
   >> component--(call)-->C Win32 DLL   
   >   
   > If they'd told us that, we'd have considered it. But they just insisted   
   > we could compile directly, without telling us how.   
   >   
   > For a long time, you couldn't use the full C/C++ run-time in a Windows   
   > Store app. They eventually changed that, and at the same time allowed   
   > ordinary WIN32 apps into the store. So all interest in producing apps   
   > that complied with the Windows Store limitations vanished.   
   >   
   > C++/CX may have been the dialect that one of their consultants insisted   
   > we had to support, but could not tell us why, except that customers would   
   > want it. Since the customer who wanted the product in question didn't   
   > want it, we were sceptical. Eventually he admitted that he got bonuses   
   > for getting ISVs to do this, so we stopped listening to him.   
      
   C++/CX is a C++ extension with builtin support for WinRT just like   
   C++/CLI is a C++ extension with support for .NET.   
      
   Supposedly they share a lot of syntax in the extended part - just   
   do different things.   
      
   Neither is widely used.   
      
   Arne   
      
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