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Debugging Trick

My colleague Kang Su (that's his first name) came by my office yesterday to borrow a book. You might think a story that starts like this couldn't possibly lead to anything interesting. This tale is compelling though so hang tight. So the book in question Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:38 AM by borisj | 2 Comments

Useful Code: Swap .h/.cpp

Over the past few weeks, for a number of reasons I have been working on a number of macros to extend the functionality of Visual C++. The first reason is that I have been giving preparing demos for various talks, such as Gamefest (which I mentioned earlier) Read More...
Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 1:18 PM by borisj | 21 Comments

GameFest I

I've spent the past two days at GameFest, presenting some tips and tricks for the Visual C++ IDE and talking to game developers. The conference was based in Bellevue (so no fancy traveling this time) and, as I mentioned before, it is geared mainly towards Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:13 PM by borisj | 14 Comments

VS 2005 vs. Firefox

Thanks to Don for pointing this one out, I bet Sara will blog about this in no time too... Since Visual Studio 2005 uses tabs for managing all the different files one would edit, one can naturally apply to browsing the web. Personally, I don't see this Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 25, 2005 6:27 PM by borisj | 11 Comments

Where is my Source Browser?

If you're an experienced Visual C++ 6.0 user, chances are you've become quite attached to the Source Browser tool. This tool provided rich browsing functionality for any project that generated a .bsc file. It was accessible from the Alt+F12 shortcut, Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:21 PM by borisj | 3 Comments

New for VC++ 2005: CTRL+J

Have you ever been coding inside a class/struct and you wanted to know just what members were available to you in that scope? Have you ever found yourself typing this-> just to see those members? Well, there's a new shortcut in VC 2005 that allows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:22 PM by borisj | 5 Comments

Find symbols VC6-style using CTRL+D

Many developers complain about the fact that the traditional search box that pops up when using CTRL+F stays open after finding the first instance of the symbol in question. This forces the user to perform an extra keystroke (namely Escape) and just does Read More...
Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 6:21 PM by borisj | 1 Comments
 
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