Here’s my article in the April 2015 issue of MSDN Magazine:
Visual C++ 2015 Brings Modern C++ to Legacy Code
Systems programming with Windows relies heavily on opaque handles that represent objects hidden behind C-style APIs. Unless you’re programming at a fairly high level, chances are you’ll be in the business of managing handles of various kinds. The concept of a handle exists in many libraries and platforms and is certainly not unique to the Windows OS. I first wrote about a smart handle class template back in 2011 when Visual C++ started introducing some initial C++11 language features. Visual C++ 2010 made it possible to write convenient and semantically correct handle wrappers, but its support for C++11 was minimal and a lot of effort was still required to write such a class correctly. With the introduction of Visual C++ 2015 this year, I thought I’d revisit this topic and share some more ideas about how to use modern C++ to liven up some old C-style libraries.
Enjoy!
Kenny Kerr 
..and yet, people are still waiting for your “moderncpp” library with which you teased us for years…
I’m still working on it.
Nice article, Kenny. As a coincidence, my article on the same subject has been published recently in Overload journal (http://accu.org/index.php/journals/2086). The main difference between my approach to RAII and yours is that I used explicit template specializations instead of traits classes.
Very nice!