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• VC++ Intellisense

  Internal Mechanism Internally the Visual Studio IDE interacts with editor and the language parsers to create a list of tokens that are updated frequently. In this process the background threads continuously update the Intellisense database. The priority Read More... Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:59 AM by prabhatt | 0 Comments Filed under: VC++

• Porting C++ native code to managed (/clr) - Threads

  In native world, one interacts with OS directly by calling Win32 APIs for managing resources (like allocating/deallocating memory,opening/closing handles). In managed world one relies on CLR totally or at times partially for doing the same( eg GC does Read More... Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 1:44 PM by mjawa | 1 Comments Filed under: VC++, .NET Troubleshooting, GC

• Sort function of STL Gives Unexpected Output when Vector is a Type Derived from _com_ptr_t

  C++ code which contains an STL vector containing types derived from the_com_ptr_t COM smart pointer class and using the std:sort() function to sort interface pointers may give unexpected sort output._com_ptr_t COM smart pointer derived types are commonly Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:51 PM by Jyoti Patel | 2 Comments Filed under: VC++, STL

• Troubleshooting CRT heap corruption

  This article focuses on troubleshooting a heap corruption caused by writing into the next allocated block. Heap corruption comes into notice when the overridden memory is accessed, leaving in a state where it becomes hard to figure out the original code Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:49 PM by Ravi Avanaganti | 0 Comments Filed under: CRT, VC++

• Stack Corruption: Calling convention mismatch

  Stack is one of the most widely understood data structures in computer science. It is a general purpose data structure and is a part of most of modern day computer architectures as well. In the context of a thread running in an executing process, “the Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:45 PM by mjawa | 2 Comments Filed under: VC++