Windows 8 already does a fairly good job of allowing for development using a number of programming languages. That is one of the biggest advantages it brings for developers, and will definitely do a lot to draw people into designing Metro UI applications. Despite the success so far in making this work, the company is [...]
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I’ve been working on some existing code yesterday and bumped into a pretty ridiculous problem – how to convert WinRT Platform::String to lowercase or uppercase… In winuser.h following functions are marked as #if WINAPI_FAMILY_PARTITION(WINAPI_PARTITION_DESKTOP) CharUpperA CharUpperW CharLowerA CharLowerW and many more. It is fine with me – but what are replacements for them? In Platform::String I don’t see [...]
