About code. Mostly on C++
You might be interested in this topic if you experienced the following problem: developed your VC++ application with Visual Studio 2005, it worked ok on your computer and when you put it on another it does not run, or your application run both on your machine and other machines (without VS 2005 installed), but after … Read more
The Oxford meeting of the ISO C++ standards committee between 15-20 April resulted in new features beeing into the draft paper of the C++0x standard. One of the features refer to Unicode support: a new header, called <cuchar>, was introduced. This header makes available new built-in types char16_t and char32_t, as well as new prefixes … Read more
The New Your Times has recently published an article called “Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine” about the Google search engine and the people working on it. A reporter from the magazine was allowed to spend a day with Amit Singhal, the mastermind behind the ranking algorithm and his collegues. As Amit Singhal put it, … Read more
Monday, June 4, Microsoft announced during the TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida, that Visual Studio code-named ‘Orcas’ was renamed Visual Studio 2008. They also announced that a second beta version will be available by the end of the summer, and it will include Visual Studio Shell, which allows developers to create an distribute tools built … Read more
Recently CodeGuru published the last part of my introductory series of articles on LINQ. Here are the links to the articles: Introduction to LINQ, part 1: LINQ to objects Introduction to LINQ, part 2: LINQ to XML Introduction to LINQ, part 3: LINQ to SQL I hope you’ll enjoy and benefit from the reading.
I have decided to make a comparison for file IO operations on Win32, CRT, STL and MFC. For all four libraries/APIs I have done the profiling in the following way: open the file allocate the buffer used for reading start the timer read/write from/to the file stop the timer close the file release the memory … Read more
Every once in a while, I run into this site teaching techniques for writing unmaintainable code. Of course, the hole purpose is to teach exactly the contrary (or at least that’s what I hope). Some of my favorite techniques are: use of single letter variable names, which of course makes searching almost impossible, and even less … Read more
Working correctly with the Windows Registry might prove a little difficult, especially for beginners. One thing one should care about for example is using the correct access rights (not just the default ones) when creating a registry key. To ease the burden of directly using the Win32 registry API, I decided to wrap them inside … Read more
Suppose you have the following code: void foo() { throw std::runtime_error(“a foo exception!”); } int main() { foo(); } When running the program, the following window is popped up: When running it in the debugger, a different window is popped up: and the debugger takes you to the line of code that threw the exception. … Read more
When I delivered the LINQ presentation at the RONUA meeting in April, I was asked how does LINQ perform on big data sets. To answer that I decided to test LINQ to XML against a 100+MB file. I decided to extract three different sets of data from this XML file: 1 set representing about 0.5MB … Read more