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C9 Lecture: C Runtime (CRT) Topics, by Mahmoud Saleh

October 11, 2011 Oct 11, 2011 10/11/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
In a recent Going Native episode in Channel 9, Charles (Torre) and I interviewed Mahmoud Saleh, the software engineer who keeps the C Runtime library. Now Mahmoud prepared for you a 1-hour lecture on some of the CRT topics like [Watch this Channel 9 lecture] (image...

Exception Boundaries: Working With Multiple Error Handling Mechanisms

March 22, 2011 Mar 22, 2011 03/22/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings! I'm David Blaikie, Software Design Engineer at Microsoft and guest blogger here on VCBlog. I work in the Windows product group, writing test infrastructure tools in C++. One of the luxuries of the codebases I work in is that they are relatively modern and flexible. We use the full gamut of C++0x features implemented in...

Making an Exception

December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 12/29/10
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) An interesting debate about C++ exceptions took place a few weeks ago in the C++ MVPs discussion list. The trigger was something as innocent and specific as “would you guys just throw std::runtime_exception with some error message string or you define a new exception hierarchy? What’s your opinion on AtlThrow/AtlThrowLastWin32?” ...