About code. Mostly on C++
In acest sezon de toamna-iarna, Microsoft Romania a pregatit un concurs de gadget-uri pentru Windows Live sau sidebar-ul din Windows Vista. Castigatorilor primelor trei locuri vor primi un televizor LCD Sony Bravia, o consola XBox 360 si respectiv un telefon HTC Touch. Inscrierile se pot face pana pe 31 octombrie, iar votul intre 1 si … Read more
Scott Guthrie announced today that Microsoft will release (under the Microsoft Reference License) the source code for the .NET Framework libraries, including: .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc) ASP.NET (System.Web) Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms) ADO.NET (System.Data) XML (System.Xml) WPF (System.Windows) More than that, Visual Studio 2008 will provide … Read more
In toamna aceasta Microsoft va distribui 100.000 de exemplare din Academic Resource Kit (sau simplu ARK), un DVD continand o colectie de instrumente educationale gratis. Aceste instrumente sunt disponibile pentru descarcare gratis si pe site-ul Microsoft, dar astfel sunt disponibile si celor carora le este mai greu sa le obtina online. DVD-ul contine urmatoarele instrumente: … Read more
There is a very interesing fiction story by Cory Doctorow published on radoronline.com called SCROOGLED. It’s about Google going evil and allowing the US Department of Homeland Security to use Google information for catching “bad guys”. A US version of “political police”, a 21st century version of Stasi and other oppressive security organizations. Or if you like, … Read more
Consider the following C++ code: void foo(int a, int b, int c) { std::cout << a << ‘ ‘ << b << ‘ ‘ << c << std::endl; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int value = 1; foo(value++, value++, value++); return 0; } That looks pretty straight-forward: there is a function that takes … Read more
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student created a tool called wikiscanner that traces the IP addresses of those that edited wikipedia articles. The tool revealed that CIA modified entries about Iraq or Iran, FBI about the involvement of Iraq in the 9/11 attacks, Vatican removed a reference to a newspaper article about Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams … Read more
A WPF TabControl contains multiple items (TabItem), just like any tab control, and adding new tabs is quite easy. The following example shows a tab control with two tab items. However, when you try adding child controls to a TabItem you’ll notice that you can actually add one single child. The following XAML code yields … Read more
Exactly two months ago Codexpert.ro was launched. Our intention (and when I say ‘our’ I mean me, Ovidiu Cucu and Dragos Cojocari) as founders of the site was to bring together the C++/VC++ programmers from Romania. Among others, the site offers articles on topics such as Windows Programming, Visual C++, MFC, C++, etc. We are encouraging all of … Read more
The w3counter.com site published several statistics based on 33 milion unique visits to 5664 sites. The statistics refer to the operating system, web browser, country and screen resolution of the visitor. The king of kings of operating systems is Windows XP with 83,48%, followed by Windows 2000, Max OS X and Windows Vista. Linux and … Read more
Let me spoil it for you: it’s not an actually class designer, because it’s only one way. It should have been called Class Viewer, but probably it get’s more publicity if it’s called designer. Let me explain how to us it. Of course, you need to have some source code for which you want to … Read more