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October 11, 2011Oct 11, 201110/11/11In 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
Memory leak detection (CRT debug heap).
May 28, 2011May 28, 201105/28/11Read in this issue:
Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data
DirectCompute Lecture Series 230: GPU Accelerated Physics
InformIT: Top Ten Tips for Correct C++ Coding
ACCU 2011: Michael Feathers On Our Ability To Do Much
Mixed-mode scenario with tracking handles to value types
CSyncCollection v1.09
Referential danger
Why is my program terminating with exit code 3?
April 2, 2011Apr 2, 201104/2/11Read in this issue:
Troubleshooting Tips for IntelliSense Slowness
The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Lambda Expressions
CMapi v1.23 (MFC classes for sending and receiving mail using Simple MAPI)
Exception Boundaries: Working With Multiple Error Handling Mechanisms
Is it reasonable to use the prefix increment operator ++it instead of postfix operator it++ for iterators?
March 22, 2011Mar 22, 201103/22/11Greetings! 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.
December 29, 2010Dec 29, 201012/29/10An 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?
