Oh, that explains why I can't navigate in "Settings" with Alt-Left (and there's no Back button either), yet it looks like an IEView (MSWebView, Electron, etc.).
Re:Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
by whowouldathunk on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:20PM
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Alt-Left goes back in Settings for me, and there is a back button at the top left of the window.
Can you disclose anything about C++/WinRT?
Things went pretty silent there.
Re:Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
by whowouldathunk on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:47AM
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Don't know, but it's been discussed publicly rather recently:
https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx
"Teams within Microsoft are already starting to use C++/WinRT to build WinRT components for the OS itself."
Thanks, that part I already know.
My point was more about Blend, XAML tooling support and official integration into Visual Studio.
So, all the things that C++/CX has today, but C++/WinRT was still catching up when that information was made public.
All of the new Windows 10 UI is C++ (using the UWP XAML framework, which is implemented in C++). The paper says metaclasses are a way to avoid language extensions like UWP's C++/Cx, which adds C# things like "interface" and "event" to C++.
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.