Basic Programming

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.

The article introduces the simplex algorithm, provides a useful C++ function to optimize target function parameters, and shows rich examples, figures, flowcharts. source code is also attached with the article.

This article introduces a simple wrapper template.

Botao Jia discusses the grammar of the C++ Pointer-to-Member Function, common applications and under-the-hood implementations.

The software giant moves quickly to address a problem impacting older, rights-managed documents.

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The article describes the main steps which should be performed to correctly port 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows systems. Although the article is meant for developers using C/C++ in Visual Studio 2005/2008 environment, it will be also useful for other developers who plan to port their applications on 64-bit systems.

Learn about a C++ mechanism to handle and manipulate different currencies.

Learn how to compile and integrate Crypto++ into the Microsoft Visual C++ environment.

Learn how to build an efficient library to provide support for Message Only Windows. The article also shows how to use the Thunk32 library provided in an earlier article, as well as some general pointers on good practices and patterns.

Learn why programmers should not try to alter the features of a programming language to their own preferences, but instead adapt to them.

Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their next-generation Web-Services technology, "Indigo," today.

Learn how to think programmatically.

Basic code for creating a "Windows Explorer"-like program

Basic code for adding a toolbar and status bar to a dialog.