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Most popular new Job Vacancies 31 Jul 2010 - 30 Aug 2010
Most popular new articles 23 Aug 2010 - 30 Aug 2010
200 articles overall 166 new, 69 updated, 0 moved. 13 were edited, 187 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added Last week
Articles updated added Last week
- Add Colors to Batch Files - Thomas Polaert
An enhanced ECHO command line utility with color support.
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, Dev
- Grid Control Re-dux with Smooth Scroll and Composite Cell - Mukit, Ataul
Chris Maunder's CGridCtrl had been modified to accomodate for merged cells and freezed panes, now it has the cool feature of Horizontal Smooth Scrolling and Composite Cell (to show a minigrid inside a single cell) (Unedited)
C++, MFC
- Concurrency Runtime in Visual C++ 2010 - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Learn about parallel algorithms, parallel containers, tasks, task groups, agents library, task scheduler etc in VC10 (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, STL, VS2010, Architect, Dev
- The Case of Evil WinMain - Ladislav Nevery
Story about how third of all Antivirus programs gone crazy for no obvious reason (Unedited)
C++
Technical blogs added Last week
- Getting to my Isolated Files (Windows Phone 7) - Joel Ivory Johnson
Download the Code (211 Kilobytes)A frequent question I see in the MSDN forums is how does one copy their files from Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7 to their desktop computer. The file system on WP7 isn't exposed so unlike WM6.x you can't just connect it to your desktop and get to any and every f (Unedited)
- Deploying Visual C++ Runtime Files as Private Assemblies - HelgeKlein
If you create a C++ project in Visual Studio and configure it to "Use MFC in a Shared DLL" (the default) you need to make sure the C runtime (CRT) and the MFC libraries are installed in the correct versions on the end user's computer. That can be difficult.There are three ways to install the librari (Unedited)
C++, Windows
- Woring with ICollectionViewSource in WPF - Abhishek Sur
If you are working with WPF for long, you might already have come across with ICollectionView. It is the primary Data object for any WPF list controls (like ComboBox, ListBox, ListView etc) that allows flexibilities like Sorting, Filtering, Grouping, Current Record Management etc. Thus it ensures th (Unedited)
- Introduction to MEF Programming - kishore Gaddam
In the previous blog post, we discussed the MEF Architecture in detail. Let us start writing some code using MEF in C#.net. First things first, you need the current version of .NET Framework 4.0 and visual Studio 2010 to write code. Note: For the UML diagrams, i am using the diagrams provided in the (Unedited)
C++, Windows, MFC
- Programming as Writing. - satyaq
I would completely agree with Eric Lippert when he says code is way easier to write than it is to read. In Programming, as in writing, we present text and data. Data without structure is useless. How do I find things? How do I consume information? What is important and what is trivial? When you [... (Unedited)
C++, Windows, MFC
- Making the best use out of Mainenance Plans on SQL Server - Raymund Macaalay
This article is about making the best use of the SQL Server Maintenance Plans, I am saying that becuase if you really want to do best practice manitenance on a SQL Server is that you should do it on a script level and trigger it by job schedule as doing this one you can have [...] (Unedited)
C++, Windows, ATL
- OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight - rudigrobler
A while ago I wrote a CodeProject article on how to re-style a TabControl to look like the Outlook navigation bar/pane… The article had a good response and loads of people were asking for a Silverlight version. I decided to take the stripped down version of that control (without all the theme (Unedited)
- Exploring Silverlight 4 - Part I (The Printing API) - mamta_m_d
One of the major peeves that Silverlight developers had in its earlier versions was the lack of printing support. Printing is an essential feature of many applications and more so in the case of LOB applications. Hence, when Silverlight 4 was released with a full featured Printing API, developers we (Unedited)
C++, Windows
- Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio - Abhijit Jana
In this post I am going to discuss about few tips on customizing debugging debugging windows. This may be very helpful during debugging of application. While debugging, you may want to simplify debug window or you may want to clean up all the unnecessary fields that are not important during debuggin (Unedited)
C++, Windows
- Radio Buttons in MFC (Visual Studio 2008 / C++) - HelgeKlein
This is a quick and dirty description of how to use radio buttons in MFC, written because I could not find this information in a single place on the web.In the dialog editor:Create a new group with the group box control and set a meaningful captionAdd radio button controls inside the groupThe radio (Unedited)
- Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite - rudigrobler
Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available…“You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, "The Weekly Source Code." You can certainly become a b (Unedited)
- Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - Progress - rudigrobler
Ever noticed the subtle progress overlay while downloading something from the internet? With Windows 7’s new taskbar, applications can visually display their progress on the taskbar!We first need to set the modeTaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal);The Window (Unedited)
- Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - rudigrobler
No, this is NOT another Justin Bieber song…In the last couple of projects I have consulted on I have seen VARIOUS implementations of dependency properties… The one thing that I did find interesting is the use of metadata. Some use PropertyMetadata, others use FrameworkPropertyMetadata (Unedited)
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