About code. Mostly on C++
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 Enterprise provides a feature called Live Unit Testing that enables developers to see live how changing C# and VB.NET code affects its corresponding unit tests. Among its features, it includes showing coverage information in the editor as you type, integration with the Test Explorer, including/excluding targeted test methods or projects for large … 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
I recently encountered a problem creating new logins with SQL Server. Something that has worked for years suddenly stopped with the following error: Password validation failed. The password does not meet Windows policy requirements because it is too short. Since SQL Server was using Windows local security policy I went and checked that at Security … 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
I am happy to announce that my book on modern C++ programming called Modern C++ Programming Cookbook, published by Packtpub, can now to pre-ordered. The book will be published around mid 2017, but pre-ordering gives you early access to the content as it is written. As the title shows, the book is a cookbook with … Read more