About code. Mostly on C++
Partial classes are finally available to C++. Sort of. It’s not part of the new C++11 standard, it’s part of the C++/CX language developed by Microsoft for targeting WinRT on Windows 8. Partial classes mean that you can define a class spanned across several files. Why is this great? Because it allows developers and automatic … Read more
At the beginning of this year, Microsoft announced a “C++ renaissance”. Quoting from the description of a Channel 9 video with Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen: C++ is currently undergoing a renaissance. This means that, by definition, the language, compilers and compositional tooling are evolving and coalescing into a state that maximizes native developer efficiency, … 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
When you run your (unmanaged/C++) application in debugger, you see at the end a report of memory leaks (if any are detected). Something like this: Detected memory leaks! Dumping objects -> f:\dd\vctools\vc7libs\ship\atlmfc\src\mfc\strcore.cpp(141) : {381} normal block at 0x001FFC30, 54 bytes long. Data: < x > 0C 00 B9 78 12 00 00 00 12 00 … Read more
I was doing some development in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and I had to add some references to my projects. When I opened the Add Reference dialog I realized something was wrong: it was working very fast. Since I’m using Visual Studio 2008 for every day development I am used to wait tens of … Read more
I have modified my VSBuildStatus add-in to work with Visual Studio 2005. Basically I had to remove the LINQ stuff to break the dependency on the version 3.5 of the .NET framework. The new version (1.0.3) that supports Visual Studio 2005 is available here. Let me know if you have any problems with it. Especially … Read more
This is the record number of error I ever got in a project: 50917. After compiling that VC# project (with T4), Visual Studio 2008 was a little bit overwhelmed. It started to report out of memory errors and failed to build after fixing the error. A restart was, of course, the cure.
Windows Vista redesigned the way the file dialogs look. MFC 9.0 (that will ship with Visual Studio 2008) was updated to support the new look and feel. If you compile your MFC application with VS 2008 you get the new file dialogs with no additional change. On the other hand if you run the application … Read more
You might be interested in this topic if you experienced the following problem: developed your VC++ application with Visual Studio 2005, it worked ok on your computer and when you put it on another it does not run, or your application run both on your machine and other machines (without VS 2005 installed), but after … Read more
Suppose you have the following code: void foo() { throw std::runtime_error(“a foo exception!”); } int main() { foo(); } When running the program, the following window is popped up: When running it in the debugger, a different window is popped up: and the debugger takes you to the line of code that threw the exception. … Read more