Deep Dive into WinRT: MSDN Session

Thanks for coming to my session on WinRT internals today at Microsoft Raanana! Preparing for this session has been very interesting for me, especially as I was mucking around with vtable pointers for the Pro .NET Performance book anyway :-)

In this session we talked about the following:

• Refreshment of how COM objects work
• WinRT object layout and relationship to COM
• The WinRT type system and threading model
• Asynchronous operations in WinRT
• Windows metadata files and projecting WinRT APIs to C#, C++/CX and JavaScript
• Designing and developing WinRT components
• Performance interoperability tips for WinRT
• Profiling WinRT applications with Visual Studio Profiler

Here’s my favorite slide—as close to assembly language as they let me:

You can download the slides (PDF) and demos right now; the session’s video recording (Hebrew) will be available later on Channel 9.