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You may have multiple versions of the .NET framework installed and used on your machine. The framework has two components: the set of assemblies that provide functionalities for your application, and the common language runtime (CLR) that handles the execution of the application. These two components are versioned separately. If you what to see what … Read more
I am pleased to announce that my book on modern C++ programming has been published by PacktPub. The book is called Modern C++ Programming Cookbook and can be ordered at packtpub.com and Amazon. The ISBN of the book is 9781786465184. The complete table of contents is available below. The book is organized in recipes, much … Read more
Initialization of variables in C++ can have several forms: default initialization: std::string s; value initialization: std::string s{}; direct initialization: std::string s(“demo”); copy initialization: std::string s = “demo”; list initialization: std::string s{‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; aggregate initialization: char s[5] = {‘d’, ‘e’, ‘m’, ‘o’}; reference initialization: char& c = s[0]; C++11 introduced a generalized syntax for … Read more
Matt Godbolt has announced today that the Visual C++ compiler is finally available on Compiler Explorer (https://godbolt.org/). Compiler Explorer is a website where you can write C/C++/Rust/Go/D code, compile it with various compilers and settings and see the resulted assembly code. #CompilerExplorer now has VS 2017 compilers! Huge thanks to @Microsoft and @apardoe! — Matt … Read more
Visual Studio 2017 has been officially launched today. The release notes contain a summary of all the changes available in the new version. This post is focused on the changes for C++ development. The Visual C++ team has released a series of blog posts to document some of the new features. Here is a list … Read more
In my previous post, Dining Philosophers in C++11, I have provided an implementation for the dining philosophers problem using modern C++ features, such as threads and mutexes. However, it was noted in the comments that the implementation did not prevent the philosophers starving to death when you remove the waiting times. An algorithm that prevents … Read more
UPDATE: for an implementation of the Chandy/Misra solution see Dining philosophers in C++11: Chandy-Misra algorithm The problem of the dining philosophers, first proposed by Edsger Dijkstra and reformulated by Tony Hoare, is a famous problem for concurrent programming that illustrates problems with synchronizing access to data. The description of the problem, taken from Wikipedia, is … Read more
The new Visual C++ 2017, currently in release candidate phase, provides a series of updates and fixes to both the C++ compiler and the standard library. A comprehensive list of these improvements is available at What’s New for Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2017 RC. In this article, I want to shortly look at the … Read more
Last week I was in Redmond for the Microsoft MVP 2016 Summit. At the same time, the ISO C++ committee was having its fall meeting in Issaquah, which is very close to Redmond. Therefore, after the summit ended, a group of VC++ MVPs, including myself, decided to make the short trip to Issaquah and attend … Read more
DISCLAIMER: the following is a pure hypothetical list of wishes I had about C++. You should treat it as it is. This is not supposed to be a collection of community agreed list of wishes, nor it is intended to make complete sense, as some of these features are available through the standard library. Please … Read more