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Add BSTR and related methods (e.g. SysAllocString*) #237

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rickbrew opened this issue Nov 2, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #274
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Add BSTR and related methods (e.g. SysAllocString*) #237

rickbrew opened this issue Nov 2, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #274
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rickbrew commented Nov 2, 2021 •
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This would enable more code to be converted away from System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal, which has kind of an unmodern icky .NET 1.0 feel to it. It would help usage of TerraFX.Interop.Windows to be more self-contained.
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AraHaan commented Nov 6, 2021

I would also love to migrate from Marshal.GetExceptionPointers() but I think that is impossible at this time 😄.

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This is more important now for my VARIANT code that also needs #261

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Looking at adding oleauto.h

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