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> Oh, and no threads for you, and all I/O is dogmatically asynchronous.

Not so much. Don't confuse WinRT, an optional helper library, with the system calls you're actually allowed to make inside an app container.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

WriteFile is available in Windows Store applications. You have to use CreateFile2 to get a HANDLE, but CF2 can still create synchronous IO handles.



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