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C++11 added a date and time utility library called chrono, available in namespace std::chrono and header <chrono>. The problem with it is that the library is a general purpose one and therefore lacks many useful features, such as working with dates, weeks, calendars, timezones and other related features. Fortunately, a rich date and time library … Read more
This project has been moved to GitHub. New location: https://github.com/mariusbancila/cppconlib Many years ago I published on my blog a helper class for working with the Windows console that was wrapping the Windows console API. Looking back at it I realized it was a pretty naive implementation. So I decided to start a new and make … Read more
NuGet has recently added support for native projects. This simplifies a lot deployment of native libraries. Even though cpplinq is not a big library (in fact is just a header file) I have created a NuGet package so that you are able to automatically add it to your project. Here is what you have to … Read more
There are some new operators available in cpplinq: singleton, generate, pairwise and zip_with. singleton This operator create a range with a single element, specified as argument. Using the operator is straight forward. auto result = singleton (42) >> to_vector (); // yields {42} generate This operator creates a range using a given predicate. auto x … Read more
In the previous posts I introduced cpplinq, a C++ template library that provides .NET-like query operators for sequences of objects in C++11. In this third installment I will discuss the set operators the library provides. There are four set operators: distinct, union_with (called so because union is a keyword in C++), intersect_with (suffix _with is … Read more
cpplinq is a C++ template library that provides .NET-like query operators for sequences of objects in C++11. cpplinq is an open-source library that works both with VC++ compilers (2010 and 2012) and gcc (4.7.0 is the version used for unit tests). The library supports most of the .NET query operators and is extendable with additional … Read more
Microsoft has recently announced at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit the introduction of a new technology called C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism or shortly C++ AMP that helps C++ developers use the GPU for parallel programming. The new technology will be part of Visual C++, integrated with full support (edit, build, debug, profile) in the next … Read more
.NET 3.0 provides some support for working with ZIP files. However, it has an important drawback: it only works for packages that are conformant to the Open Packaging Convention standard. Most of the ZIP files are not. Codeplex features a library called DotNetZip that provides support for packing and unpacking in C#, VB.NET or any … 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