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    How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N3.

    This third article in the series discusses a couple of new programming methods that can help you make your code simpler and safer.

    SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code

    Wong Shao Voon shows you how to use SSE2 to Speed up Alphablending.

    How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N2

    This is the second article on avoiding certain errors at the early stage of code writing. In the previous post, we have already advised you to avoid a large number of calculations in one expression. However, we should investigate this question in detail. Let's see what's dangerous about complex expressions and how we can avoid many logical errors.

    90 Errors in Open-Source Projects (not yet reviewed)

    The materials collected in this article will be useful for authors of articles, books and blogs. Examples of errors can be used to demonstrate the advantages of different programming styles -- for instance, why you should not try to make your code shorter by writing long expressions.

    Leo Tolstoy and Static Code Analysis

    Andrey Karpov checks Apache HTTP Server with PVS-Studio and discusses the errors and false reports returned.

    Amusing C++

    The article describes a few C++ tricks that look uncommon but amusing.

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    Using VC++ .NET

    USING VC++ .NET

    MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)

    The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

    Nuts & Bolts

    .NET NUTS & BOLTS

    .NET Framework: Collections and Generics

    The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

    VB Today

    VISUAL BASIC TODAY

    Input and Output with VB.NET 2010

    The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.

    Insights

    PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS

    Creating OData Entries in WCF Data Services

    To fully exploit Open Data Protocol (OData) with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a .NET app must instantiate or implement. Using a sample WCF Data Services application, this article explains how to implement data creation on an OData Endpoint.