About code. Mostly on C++
Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM are now available for download on MSDN for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Currently, the only available bits are in English. The other languages will become available on October 1st. Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download the bits starting … Read more
I run across this site featuring hundreds of amazing circle crop pictures, taken by Lucy Pringle, one of world’s leading crop circles photographers. For the record, I don’t believe they have anything to do with things from outer space. They are all man made. But I must admit, lots of them are amazing. Here are … Read more
Microsoft has made available a first beta version of an experimental version of .NET 4.0, called .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Enabled for Software Transactional Memory v1.0. Since that is quite a long name, the short one is STM.NET. This is a special version of .NET 4.0 that enables software transactional memory for C#. It … 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
Project Tuva is an enhanced video player created by Microsoft Research to freely host the lectures give my Richard Feynman at the Cornell University in the ’60s. Bill Gates saw the lectures two decades ago, was impressed with them and wanted to make them freely available. Now, it finally happened. You can watch them at … Read more
Romanians won two of the nine awards at the 2009 Imagine Cup in Cairo: Software Design, the most important category, won by Sytech team, Adrian Buzgar, Calin Juravle, Andreas Resios, and IT Challenge, won by Cosmin Ilie. This year’s theme was “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems.” About 300.000 students … Read more
MSDN Code Gallery made available an update for the Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework 3.5 (or above), a library that provides access to some Window 7 features and some existing features in previous operating systems. It includes: Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails, and Thumbnail Toolbars. Known Folders, … Read more
Visual Studio 2010, currently in beta 1, replaces VCBuild with MSBuild as the build system, aligning C++ with the other languages that already used MSBuild. The VC++ team has already posted several articles on it’s blog about the new build system. Channel 9 has published recently a video with Bogdan Mihalcea, a developer in the … Read more
In a recent post I wrote about Code Contracts in .NET. Now you can find a more detailed article on this topic at sharparena.com. In this article I’m providing more information and examples on: pre-conditions post-conditions object invariants asserts and assumptions quantifiers In additions, you should check the official user documentation, which can be found … Read more
Google has unveil the next product they will launch later this year. It’s called Wave and it’s a communication protocol. It’s like the email of the 21st century, but much more than that. Wave is a collaborative product. The waves are communication objects, both conversation and documents, allowing people to almost instantly communicate on the … Read more