Nomad, you raise some valid points. But the FACT remains that if a person (especially a beginning student) learns C++ by using the VC++ 6.0 compiler, they will HAVE TO adopt practices which are NOT...
If someone is writing "jelly bean" programs and attempting to sell them, they are typically looking at a sell price of well under $100 (US). Much of the competition already comes in the form of other...
You mentioned "talking to hardware" in a previous post. I have long (since the 1970's ) been a big fan of using "simulators/emulators" where ever possible....
I do a good amount of industrial automation, and "true" real-time systems (requiring response times measured in the sub-millisecond range), yet 80% or more of you code testing is done in conditions...
WPF was released well over a year ago [2/19/2008] and is extremely reliable with plenty of large scale busiless applications implemented using this technology.
1) ANY program can be reverse engineered. Until DRM is embedded in the processor itself, this will be true. I have reverse engineered programs written in just about every language over the past 30...
I am 99% certain that IDataRecord.GetChars(..) uses an internal buffer. If this buffer is in managed code, then it does nothing to address the LOH issue. If it is in native code, then it may help.
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As stated previously YOU must design your application so the work is divided up into parts that can be perfomed independantly. It is NOT something the computer does. It is entirely controlled by how...
Agreed. I was just was pointing out that the conversion to a boolean will (almost) always involve a comapre and BRANCH operation. In many ways the compiler warning and manual implementation (simply...
If anything can be installed on your machine without explicit permission from you, then it means exactly one thing... YOU do not have your properly secured.
As a side note, most of the suggestions (except GCDEF's) are eplicit implementations of the performance degradition that the compilerabout when implicitly implementing identical logic). All they have...
Yet these conceptual topics are what really needs to be taught and understood before the person ever writes their first line of code, regardless of language. (At least that is my opinion, and basted...
Exactly!!!! Plus, think of what happens when you want to use the Card class in a WinForms or ASP.Net application :eek: By referencing "cout" you have added a constraint on the usage of the class that...