Stan Lippman's BLog

I've been recently puzzling out a strategy for presenting the two mechanisms supporting parameterized types available to the C++/CLI programmer: she can use either the template mechanism adapted for use with CLI types, or the CLI generic mechanism. This...

Part of the (reasonably pleasant) distractions from posting on this blog recently has been working up the first in a series of articles on STL.NET for our Visual C++ MSDN web site. The amount of work to get from an articulation of a topic to a formal...

C and C++ programmers are notorious for relying on pointer indirection, and it seems blog entries are not immune to this. A translation guide attempting to exhaustively detail the differences between the original Managed Extensions for C++ (released with...

A value type is typically not subject to garbage collection except in two cases: (a) when it is the subject of a box operation, either explicit or implicit, such as, void f( int ix ) { // explicit placement on the CLI heap int^ result = gcnew int( -1...

Recently, someone asked me why we support both class and typename within C++ to indicate a type parameter since the keywords do not hold any platform significance – for example, class is not meant to suggest a native type nor is typename meant to suggest...

Sorry it is taking me so long these days. I am in the throes of more formal writing – a book on our CLI binding for C++, and a series of articles for our Visual C++ MSDN website on STL.NET. And my translation tool is happily going through a formal...