I finally got around to asking for permission to share the slides of a tech talk I did more than a year ago:
Modern COM Programming in D
In the slides I explain how I've made a projection for COM into D, which allows you to use COM objects without the usual hassle of refcount/QueryInterface/HRESULT/BSTR/etc... Sharing the code will be hard (mostly because of the shape it's in) but the slides basically contain all you need. Actually, D has progressed a lot since, so a rewrite might be in order anyway.
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import std.stdio, comxml;
void main()
{
// Create a new empty document
auto doc = XmlDocument();
// Load an XML document from an inline string
doc.LoadXml("世界你好helloworld");
// Get the first node's value
auto text = doc.DocumentElement.FirstChild;
// Write the node's value to the console
writeln(text.NodeValue);
// Perform a simple XPath query
auto nodes = doc.SelectNodes("/root/a/text()");
// Do iteration through the child nodes
foreach (node; nodes.First)
writeln(node.NodeValue);
// Access the child nodes by index
for (uint t = 0; t < nodes.length; ++t)
writeln(nodes[t].NodeValue);
}
