About code. Mostly on C++
Marius Bancila A first preview of the next version of Microsoft Expression Blend, called Blend 2 is available at the Microsoft Download Center. This preview version allows you to create Silverlight 1.0-based applications. Microsoft Expression Design can export content in a format that can be used in Blend 2 August Preview for creating Silverlight-based applications. Among the new features … Read more
The C++ standard, specifies in the paragraph 23.1.10 that swapping two containers should not invalidate any references, pointers or iterators refering to the elements of the containers being swapped. Unfortunatelly, that is not the case of the VC++ 2005 implementation. Imagine the following case: std::vector vec1; vec1.push_back(1); vec1.push_back(2); vec1.push_back(3); std::vector vec2; vec2.push_back(10); vec2.push_back(20); std::vector::iterator it1 = vec1.begin(); … Read more
I’m using Yahoo! mail beta, and a couple a day ago I found something intriguing: a feature called ‘Subject-O-Matique’. It is an automatical subject line generator. When you hit the subject button it inserts random (unique) titles such as: Eating pasta with chopsticks Pass the timbits! Space heaters make great house-warming gifts Boris or Brigitte? … Read more
The first CTP (called August 2007 CTP) for the next version of Visual Studio Team System code-named ‘Rosario’ (after a resort located on the Orcas Island, Seattle) was released at the end of the last week. This will be the next version after Visual Studio Team System 2008 (that will be officially launched on February … Read more
I’ve seen this question many times asked in forums. Unfortunatelly, not all the answers are ok. A a good wait to find the available COM ports is by using function GetDefaultCommConfig, that returns the default configuration for a specified communication device. Following code shows how to use it: #include <vector> #include <string> // this can … Read more
I read a very interesting article written in 2004 by Joel Spolsky, called How Microsoft Lost the API War. It shares my view that latelly, Microsoft has released simply too many programs and technologies and we can no longer cope with them. They have to take a break (and fix problems in the current releases) … Read more
Beta 2 for VS 2008 was made available at the end of the last week. It inclues beta releases for standard, professional, team system editions and the MSDN library. It also includes the beta 2 for the .NET Framework 3.5 and a CTP for the Silverlight add-in for VS 2008 that allows you working with Silverlight … Read more
A collegue of mine pointed me today to this web site, http://www.ivosoftware.com/, that offers a very interesting speech synthesizer, called IVONA. Without trying to advertise for it, I just want to say that I was surprized that one of the three languages that is supports is Romanian, and the it sounds quite good. You can … Read more
Today was launched the main site of Codexpert, the community for Romanian C++ programmers. For now you can check the latest news, what topics are active or unanswered on the forum, navigate to the community’s forum and wiki. In a short time we will start publishing articles, which you can send for now in HTML … Read more
I am happy to announce you that together with Ovidiu Cucu and Dragos Cojocari (both Microsoft MVPs for VC++) have created CODEXPERT, a web site for the C++ developers in Romania and elsewhere the world. Except that all resources (including the main site, forum, articles, wiki, etc.) are in Romanian. The goal of our project is to create a … Read more