In the fifth part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library, I explain how the advanced analysis in my Nurikabe solver works. One of its steps involves using a breadth-first search to detect any unreachable cells. Mandatory prerequisites of Part 5 are reading Wikipedia's Nurikabe page and watching Part 4 (the i...
In the fourth part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library, I walk through an extended example of using the STL to solve Nurikabe puzzles. It assumes that you've read Wikipedia's Nurikabe page, and that you've watched Part 1 (sequence containers), Part 2 (associative containers), and Part 3 (smart pointers), or th...
In May this year, we announced Project Hilo and promised a set of cool sample applications written in C++. At that time we had released the first application in the Hilo series. Since then we have published some articles that walk the reader through all the steps that go into developing the Hilo Browser application (Chapter 1 thru 8 on this link). ...
The third part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available, following Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3 covers unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and exception handling (briefly). It explains my solution to the container erasure problem, and presents a significantly larger homework problem: writing a Nurikabe solv...
My name is Ahmed Charles and I currently work on Windows Error Reporting. I believe that this is the first time that someone not on the VC team has written a blog, but I hope you will find it useful anyways. I’d like to thank Stephan T. Lavavej for the idea and valuable feedback while writing it. And we both owe the idea for...
The second part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available. This part covers the STL's associative containers and the erase-remove idiom. It assumes that you've watched Part 1. More parts are on their way! Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see. Stephan T. LavavejVis...
The C++ back-end team is very conscious of the performance of our product. Today I will present to you an overview of how we define “performance of our product” and the way we measure it. Along the way I hope to introduce you to some new ideas that you can use to test your product’s performance as well. You can read Al...
I recently recorded the first part of a video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library. It assumes familiarity with C++, but begins with the STL basically from scratch. Channel 9 hooked up my laptop so I could write, compile, and execute code as I went along. Check it out here: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going...
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Recently we announced the availability of Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for MSDN subscribers which complements the Architecture tools in VS2010. There is great C/C++ code visualization support in there. Read a blog post by Somasegar here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2010/06/17/modeling-websites-and-native-code.aspx Than...
