Again, System.Uri tries to be smart and does something on my behalf :-( This time, the victim is trailing dot (which is common in wiki pages). See this connect bug for details. The workaround is similar to the one described in this post . The only...

This is an article written by Jan Gray. It is quite old, but most of the contents still apply today. The original article on MSDN can no longer be found. Here is the pdf version on OpenRCE: http://www.openrce.org/articles/files/jangrayhood.pdf . Overview...

In GoingNative 2012 , there are some discussions on the new coding style for C++11. One interesting thing which is mentioned by Bjarne Stroustrup, Stephan T. Lavavej and Herb Sutter is the most efficient way to pass the argument. In C++98, pass by reference...

I use C# a lot to write small utilities and sometimes find that it is annoying to have to dig into the source code to figure out why .Net framework doesn’t work as I expected. This happens again when I am using LinkedIn API (BTW, this is the first occurence...

Throughput of iostream is considered much slower compared with its C counterpart. For example: printf( "1234567\n" ); cout << "1234567" << endl; If you iterate 10 5 times, printf takes about 50ms while cout takes >1s. This looks...

Someone reminds me that it has been nearly 2 years since my last blog post. How time flies! Many things happened during this period. I moved to Redmond and I’m now officially working on C++ compiler. The work is busy and also challenging. ...

Summary Page ( n3090.pdf is the current working draft of C++0x standard, it is available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3090.pdf ) What we have before C++0x Everyone knows that null pointer value is NULL. In C...

1. decltype(*&function) https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/510640 int foo(); decltype (*&foo) df; // it should be "int (&)()", but it is "int (*)()" The internal representation (it is special for...

Summary Page ( n3090.pdf is the current working draft of C++0x standard, it is available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3090.pdf ) What we have before C++0x When do generic programming in C++, you often have to...

Summary Page ( n3090.pdf is the current working draft of C++0x standard, it is available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3090.pdf ) What we have before C++0x C++ is a strongly typed programming language. You have...

Summary Page ( n3090.pdf is the current working draft of C++0x standard, it is available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n3090.pdf ) What we have before C++0x It is a common task to output meaningful error message...

VC2010 has been released for a while. It adds many C++0x features (The complete list can be found here: C++0x Core Language Features In VC10: The Table ) In the following posts, I’d like to share some of my experience of these new features. They...

In VC, you may find that you can use "size_t" directly without including any headers. size_t i = 0; int main() { atexit(0); } However, "size_t" is not a built-in type. It is a typedef in <stddef.h>. So what's the magic? In VC compiler, it...

C++ supports in-class initialization of static integral constant members. It is nearly the same as enum, with the following difference (quoted from C++03 9.4.2.4 ([class.static.data])): The member shall still be defined in a namespace scope if it is...

In C++, only a few characters can be used as part of the identifier. identifier: identifier-nondigit identifier identifier-nondigit identifier digit identifier-nondigit: nondigit universal-character-name other implementation-defined characters nondigit...

What is inline? This keyword is mainly used to ask the compiler to inline substitution of the function body at the point of call. Like 'register', this is only a suggestion to the compiler. Modern compiler can handle inlining using advanced heuristic...

I’m glad that our team blog is now online ( http://blogs.msdn.com/vcshblog/ ). It is in Chinese and is targeted to Chinese developers. We will write technical articles related to our work in Shanghai and also translate articles on VCBlog into Chinese...

According to C standard, it only supports output text in MBCS (Multi-Byte Character String): n1124.pdf , 7.19.3/12 The wide character output functions convert wide characters to multibyte characters and write them to the stream as if they were written...

IDA Pro 5.5 ships 12th of June 2009. The change list is here: http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/55/index.htm

This is an intellectual exercise: when shifts a 32-bit unsigned integer in C++, how to detect whether the calculation overflows efficiently? Here is the function prototype. shl_overflow will return true if v << cl overflows (cl is between 0 and...

Many recursive algorithms have initial parameters. For example, Fibonacci Number is defined as: Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2, with F1 = F2 = 1. By giving different values to F1 and F2, we can generate different sequence of numbers. 1. If we implement the algorithm...

NOTICE: The technique describes in the article may not be supported in future release of VC. You should not use it in production code There are two kinds of initialization in C++: static initialization and dynamic initialization. According to the...

Matrix multiplication is common and the algorithm is easy to implementation. Here is one example: Version 1: template < typename T> void SeqMatrixMult1( int size, T** m1, T** m2, T** result) { for ( int i = 0; i < size; i++) { for ( int j...

Object slicing often happens when you pass the object by value. Compiler will do implicitly conversion from derived to base for you without any warning message. If you want to detect object slicing, you're on your own. However, template can help you...

C++0x will provide a full set of type traits helpers to ease generic programming. However, there is no support for the detection of class members. The general problem is hard. Here we will try to tackle the more specific version: detecting the class member...