February, 2011

Read in this issue : Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications The Cost of Free Can Touch This: Windows 7 Touch Application Development Guidance Expressive C++: Fun With Function...

You may already know Pete Brown but if you don’t, I’ll briefly introduce him here: he’s, like me, a Community Program Manager with Microsoft but while I’m focused on C/C++ languages and the Visual C++ tool, he’s devoted to client-side development technologies...

Those who, beside this blog, read Windows Developer resources, may have noticed that at the beginning of this month that sibling team released a “ Windows 7 Touch Application Development Guidance ”. This guidance is purposed to make you learn...

Read in this issue : Win32++: A Simple Alternative to MFC How do you build a community of users that give high quality comments on a website? What’s so cool about Boost.MPI? W00t W00t Nix Nix! Concurrency Runtime (CRT): The Resource Manager CPU Caches...

An interesting question, asked days ago in one of our C++ forums , was the following: How to Run only one instance of MFC application?? A possible approach, based in mutex (mutual exclusion) objects , was posted a few hours later. In the proposed...

Read in this issue : Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? Herb Sutter: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex Entrepreneurial debates: Acquisition interest in my part-time startup Introduction to Expressive C...

Part 1 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available. In this part, I explain how some of shared_ptr's magic works, including type erasure and make_shared<T>()'s optimizations that save both...

This is one of those problems whose solution is very evident… or bitterly hard to guess depending on how much you were influenced by what you were told about it. I’ll paste here the case I must be getting blind, as I can’t...

If you don’t know Charles Torre, I’ll introduce him here: Charles is a BIG fan of C++ and he works for Channel 9 (in that order). Charles is the one to blame about the acclaimed series that Stephan put together about STL (beside Stephan himself...

For this week roundup, we start with a game that C++ MVP Marius Bancila code, inspired on his favorite phone game. You can download the code and study or just play it right away. We tell you how to validate, in Visual Studio 2010, C/C++ code against architecture...

A recurrent question (well, one of the many) is about STL containers and whether they are thread safe. Taking Stephan’s words here, the reality is that they aren’t, not as a bug but as a feature: having every member function of every STL...

Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects. However, they are an essential and enabling sugar that will change the way we will write C++ code more often than most people realize. This talk...