Latest Visual C++ / C++ Articles

Vectors are one of the single most useful and most used objects in the STL. They are easy to use, and remove the burden of memory management from the user. It is possible to partially control memory usage by using functions like reserve, but nothing is provided to free up excess memory. Users have come up with ways to trim a vector by hand, but with the advent of the new C++0x and its move semantics, the classic solution of copy-swaping has become excessively expensive. This article seeks to find a better solution.

Use your C++ Programming skills to create a special list control that allows another list control to be inserted in a particular cell.

Learn to use CScreenImage, an MFC/ATL extension class for screen image captures.

Bjarne Stroustrup talks about the imminent C++0x standard and the forthcoming features it brings, the difficulties of standardizing programming languages in general, the calculated risks that the standards committee can afford to take with new features, and even his own New Year's resolutions.

The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model.

Read along as Marc Gregoire provides a brief overview of TxF and TxR to give you an idea of what you can accomplish with it.