About code. Mostly on C++
After 4 releases of Visual Studio with Help 2 engine, Visual Studio 2010 will bring yet another change: a new help engine, called MS Help 3. The first beta will ship only with online support, but the second beta should contain offline support too. Changes in the new system include: the new help files have … Read more
I have fixed several bugs on version 1.0.4 of my VSBuildStatus add-in for Visual Studio that displays the status of a build/clean/deploy operation. The bugs were mainly about the batch builds. The new version is 1.0.5. You can download this Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 add-in from here. If you are using a previous build … Read more
I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#. This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about … Read more
It is often that I see people using namespace directives in header files. This is a bad practice maybe not enought explained, so I will try to clarify why one should always avoid this. When you are using a using directive (such as using namespace std) or using declarations (such as using std::cout) you are … Read more
I’ve found myself in situations when I spent lots of time debugging because of some variables declared in a base class were written in tens or maybe hundreds of places in the whole hierarchy, across one or multiple projects even. How could you find the right place where the value of such a variable changes? … Read more
In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca … Read more
On March 28, turn off lights for one hour starting at 20:30. This way you can tell the world leaders they have to take real action against the global warming and climate changes. This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time … Read more
The new MFC library from Visual Studo 2010 supports another Vista specific feature, the task dialog. This is meant as a replacement for the classic dialog box, and can display command links, customized buttons, customized icons, and a footer. Here is an example of such a dialog (from Windows Server 2008). MFC contains a new … Read more
One of the new features available in MFC in the Visual Studio 2010 CTP is the Restart Manager. This was introduced with Windows Vista to offer support for restarting application when a crash occurs or when an automatic update needs to close and then restart an application. When you create a new MFC project in … Read more
One of the new features in .NET 4.0 is the BigInteger class. This was suppose to be part of 3.5 framework, but after the CTP it was gone. Now it’s back. This big integer is a really large integer representation. However, I was not able to find the precision documented anywhere. The class is available … Read more