About code. Mostly on C++
Recently, I stumbled across a peculiar error that I found nothing about on the web. Although I got rid of it, I didn’t figure out what the problem was. This post is merely the story of what happened. I am working on a project that contains both C++ and C# projects. The C++ ones used…
I have tried to assemble together information about the Visual C++ releases, the compiler and the frameworks (MFC and ATL). You can find these on many places, but it is often incomplete or focused on something particular (Visual Studio, C++ compiler, framework, etc.). The table below is the result of this effort. It is incomplete…
If you work with COM, apartments is one of the concepts you must comprehend, because it’s an important topic. Before explaining what apartments are let’s think about classes and objects regardless of COM. When you build a class, you know (or you should) whether objects of that class will be used from a single thread,…