Latest Visual C++ / C++ Articles

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

During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.

Discover how to deal with C4996 warning, what secure CRT functions are and how to correctly use them.

This article describes how to create stack based allocators for use with STL containers.

Microsoft has been talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) at least half a decade, and has had a software solution since 2005. Now, the product is easily approachable by everyone, including the lone developer. But what is the Microsoft ALM solution and why is it useful?

C++0x introduces two new function specifiers: =default and =delete. The former instructs the compiler to implicitly define a member function that it wouldn't define otherwise. The latter suppresses the implicit definition of a member function. Find out how to use this mechanism to reduce labor-intensive tasks, improve performance, and make your classes more secure.