About code. Mostly on C++
Windows 8 features a Settings charm to display both application (the top part) and system (the bottom part) settings (you get it from swiping from the side of the screen). The system provides two entry points, Permissions and Rate and Review, the later only for applications installed through the store. You can customize the settings … Read more
In WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone it is possible to render a visual object into a bitmap using the RenderTargetBitmap. This functionality, that I find pretty basic, was not available for Windows Store applications. Fortunately, Windows 8.1 provides that functionality for Windows Store applications too, through the same RenderTargetBitmap class. There are some limitations though: … Read more
A friend of mine recently proposed the following problem on twitter: Given f y z =108 – (815 – 1500/z)/y, x0 = 4, x1 = 4.25 and xN+1 = f xN xN-1 then what is x80? Note: This might not be as easy as it looks — Mårten Rånge (@marten_range) October 19, 2013 I didn’t … Read more
The larger a VC++ project is (or any project for that matter) the more time it takes to build. If you have solutions with many large projects the build times could get into your way. Starting a rebuild and going to lunch was a common scenario for me, as building took 20-25 minutes. Of course, … Read more
This project has been moved to GitHub. New location: https://github.com/mariusbancila/cppconlib Many years ago I published on my blog a helper class for working with the Windows console that was wrapping the Windows console API. Looking back at it I realized it was a pretty naive implementation. So I decided to start a new and make … Read more
UPDATE: for an updated version of this demo, using C++ REST SDK 2.10 see this blog post. In my previous post I shown how you can build a C++ application with the C++ REST SDK that fetches search results from a search engine. In this post, I will go a step further and develop a … Read more
The C++ REST project provides a modern asynchronous C++ API for cloud-based client-server communication. It is available on codeplex and works with Visual Studio 2010 and 2012, but it is now distributed with Visual Studio 2013. The preview version of VS2013 deploys version 1.0 of the SDK. Since its release a new version of the … Read more
Go to definition (F12 in Visual Studio) is such an intensively used command, but it opens a new window for the document. Visual Studio 2013 adds a new go to definition command that actually displays the definition inline, in the same window. It’s called Peek Definition and the shortcut is ALT+F12. It opens an embedded … Read more
CPtrArray is a nasty MFC container that should not be used. However, if you deal with legacy code you may not have a choice and have to work with it. Unfortunately, the Visual Studio debugger is not able to display its elements, since these are pointers to void and that can be anything. In this … Read more
Visual Studio 2013 provides developers with the ability to sign in with a Microsoft account and synchronize settings across devices (and as new versions will be released across different versions of Visual Studio). When you first launch Visual Studio 2013 you are asked to sign in (you can skip that and do it any time … Read more