I got a response from the MSDN forums:
Platform::String^ id = Windows::Media::Devices::MediaDevice::GetDefaultAudioCaptureId(Windows::Media::Devices::AudioDeviceRole::Console ); Microsoft::WRL::ComPtr<IAudioClient> pAudioClient = NULL; ActivateAudioInterface( id->Data(), __uuidof( IAudioClient ), (void**)&pAudioClient );
This ActivateAudioInterface () is mysterious to me, there are no links to it in the MSDN library; the only hits in his search are on the forums ...
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