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Raymond Chen continues his series on creating a fake agile wrapper in COM, explaining how to move non-marshalable objects by forwarding references into the force_marshal wrapper and discussing C++/WinRT deduction guides.

Raymond Chen continues his series on creating a fake agile wrapper for non-marshalable COM objects by wrapping them in a marshalable object, enabling registration in the global interface table while preserving undefined-behavior-free failures in other apartments.

Raymond Chen describes a technique for creating a fake agile wrapper in COM that uses the Global Interface Table to automatically release an object when its source apartment shuts down, addressing a problem with context callback failures.

This article discusses implementing an agile Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, focusing on using CoGetContextToken to compare context tokens for efficiency instead of comparing COM objects.

This blog post discusses handling Windows Runtime delegates that implement the INoMarshal interface in C++/WinRT, providing an agile delegate wrapper that checks the calling context to avoid marshaling errors.

Raymond Chen explains that COM STA threads are required to pump messages only when idle; code that is always busy doesn't need an explicit message loop, but COM still creates a hidden window that requires pumping when the thread becomes idle to avoid jamming window broadcasts.