About code. Mostly on C++
Marius Bancila Suppose you have a class foo like this: class foo { public: int X; int Y; int Z; foo(int x = 0, int y = 0, int z = 0): X(x), Y(y), Z(z) {} }; And you have a variable f(1, 2, 3) what you watch in your Watch window. The window looks like this: … Read more
A collegue of mine pointed to me today a chapter from a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook”, published by IDG Books Worldwide Inc. in 1994 (ISBN 1-56884-203-1). One of the latest chapters is called “Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax”. In this chapter the authors say that Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan addmited … Read more
MFC in Orcas comes with several important changes, such as support for Vista specific command button and split button. I have put together a small demo application displaying a command button with the tex Say “Hello Vista” and the note “Click on this button to show a “Hello Vista” message!”. The command button is still … Read more
Google seems to take the April’s Fool Day very seriously. 😉 They did two practical jokes, and I’m wondering how many people did fall for it. First, was the Toilet Internet Service Provider, or TiSP. Yes that was a practical joke, of course. 🙂 Second, they posted this page about a new service: Gmail on … Read more
Channel9 has posted recently an interview with Sarita Bafna, a Program Manager on the VC++ Libraries team, about the new features available in Orcas (in March CTP also) for VC++. The interview is focused on 2 things: marshaling library and MFC updates. The marshaling library consists on one single API, marshal_as, for marshaling between managed … Read more
Google did it again: they just launched a free in-home wireless broadband service, called TiSP, available for now in a BETA version. According to google, TiSP is a Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP … Read more
Prashant Sridharan, Microsoft group product manager for Visual Studio, announced Monday, March 26, 2007, that Microsoft plans to release Visual Studio code-named ‘Orcas’ by the end of the year, and it also plans to release Visual Studio code-named ‘Rosario’ (the next version after ‘Orcas’) within an year timeframe after that. A CTP for ‘Rosario’ might … Read more
LINQ is a valuable feature for database and XML programming, but not only. Basically, you can use LINQ with everything that returns an IEnumerable. Here is an example, when I want to list the directories of a parent directory, in alfabetical order, and grouped by the file attributes (first all that have only the flag … Read more
This is a simple guideline from my own experience for installing Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 and SP update for Vista. Installation of Visual Studio 2005 is pretty straight-forward. It does not take more than one hour. For the rest you should consider these: download Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1 (it … Read more
Channel 9 forums has posted in January a video interview with Anders Hejlsberg (chief architect of C#), Herb Sutter (architect of C++), Erik Meijer (architect of VB.NET and C#) and Brian Beckman (physicist and architect of VB.NET). For one hour they talked about new trends in programming, the new issues and dificulties faced, and what … Read more