From a purely object-oriented perspective, "copy semantics" is the right way to preserve control over object ownership. But in those scenarios where ownership becomes irrelevant, C++11 "move semantics ...

Classes are the most common way to define object types, and most languages that use objects—including Java, Python, and C++—support classes with a similar syntax. (JavaScript also uses ...

You can't forward-declare a nested class, because at the point of declaration the compiler doesn't know whether the inner class is public/protected/private in the outer class.

The ComPtr class template is provided by the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL), which is included with the Windows SDK for Windows 8. Don't let the name confuse you: This library is primarily ...