About code. Mostly on C++
Several CTPs for Visual Studio 2014 have been released so far. The 3rd and 4th CTPs can be actually used with a Windows Azure Virtual Machine. If you have a Windows Azure account you can go ahead and create a VM. If you are an MSDN Subscriber or you have a trial account, you have … Read more
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 will bring support in Visual Studio and TFS for git. They already used git on codeplex and this move shows how popular git has become. I don’t work much with git, but as I said codeplex uses git, and I used it for working on cpplinq. … Read more
If you are still using Visual Studio 2005 and need to develop WCF services you need the following: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package (SP2) The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for.NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP 3 The problem with the later is that Microsoft no longer supports it. Visual Studio 2008 … Read more
The new C++ standard defines a new keyword, static_assert, that is already available in Visual Studio 2010 CTP. This new feature allows introducing compile time asserts. It takes an expression that can evaluate to bool and a string. If the expression evaluates to false, the compiler issues an error with the given string literal. If … Read more
The new C++0x standard adds lambda expressions to the language. Visual Studio 2010 CTP is already supporting this new feature that brings functional techniques to C++ too. What is a lambda expression? It’s basically a function. In F# it’s an anonymous function, in C# it’s an anonymous delegate; in C++ it’s in fact an anonymous … Read more
So far, C#, unlike C++, did not support optional arguments. For instance, suppose you need a function to print log a message, that can add a new line or not after writing the message. Most of the times you want a new line, so you don’t want to specify that for most of the calls. … Read more
The new C++0x standard provides support for type inference. The auto keyword that was doing nothing in C++ was given a new meaning: a placeholder for a type inferred by the compiler. For those familiar with C#’s var keyword, this is basically the same. Here is a comparison between auto in C++ and var in … Read more
In a previous post I explained than when you create a MFC application with the March CTP of ‘Orcas’ and add a command or split button to a dialog, the .rc file is not compiled, because styles such as BS_COMMANDLINK are not found. My workaround for the moment was to redeclare them in the resource.h … Read more