About code. Mostly on C++
I this post I will talk about the deployment changes in VC++ 2010. When you deploy an application to another machine you have to install not only the application but all the libraries that it depends on. When you build with VC++, you have dependencies on CRT (C/C++ runtime) and possible on MFC and/or ATL. … Read more
VC++ Feature Pack that came with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduced support for the Office Fluent Ribbon. However, developers had to create ribbons entirely from code, because there was no support in the resource editor for that. Visual Studio 2010 comes with a visual designer for the ribbon. You can choose whether to use a … Read more
Some of the important changs in Visual Studio 2010 in regard to VC++ are represented by the support in the C++ compiler of some of the features already approved for the new C++ standard, so far called C++0x. In this post I will give a short overview on then. static_assert I already wrote a post … Read more
In my previous post I talked about the new build system for VC++ from Visual Studio 2010, which is MSBuild and the support for multi-targetting. In this post I will talk about changes to IntelliSense and browsing. If you go back to the example I was providing in the first post, with the two identical … Read more
The new version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio 2010 comes with a series of changes for Visual C++. This includes a new build system, new project system, multi-targeting, new IntelliSense, support in MFC for new controls, new additions to the C++ compiler (which were already approved for C++0x), new deployment model, and others. In … Read more
On of the most important challenges nowadays in programming is concurrency. If we don’t learn to write programs that are able to run on multiple cores the progress in hardware will be pointless. But when you run multiple threads for various processing you might face the situation when you have to write over and over … Read more
With VC++ Feature Pack Microsoft has added new classes to MFC to provide support for new controls. However, these controls were not available from the designer. One had to manually wrote all the code for enabling an application to use these controls. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, released a couple of weeks ago, provides support … Read more
Sometimes you want to customize a file dialog, maybe to provide a preview for images or files in general. Fortunately, the common file dialog can be easily extended to achieve this. I will explain in this post how to do that. There are several things one needs to do to extend the file dialog. First … Read more
Concepts were supposed to be an important new feature in C++0x. They were meant to allow programmers to specify properties (like constraints) for templates, allow compilers to do some optimization and tools to do some formal checking on the code. After years of debate, the standard committee found them “untried, risky and controversial” and ruled … Read more
.NET allows you to expose components as COM and consume them from unmanaged code. There are many references on how to this (and you can only start with MSDN), and I will not talk about that part. What I want to explain here is something different. Suppose you have this interface: [Guid(“2F8433FE-4771-4037-B6B2-ED5F6585ED04”)] [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)] public interface … Read more