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I am safely d in my homeland, with its excellent coffee, serious wines, and wall to wall sunshine, and all is well except for a few minor issues that my friends here simply can't seem to relate to.
- If you bring an eSATA drive make sure you have an eSATA port at your destination. Obvious, one would think.
- If you bring an expansion card to fit in your destination PC, make sure you have the correct hardware interface. Again obvious.
- If you need really large data files that are painful to transfer online, don't leave them at home.
Some travelers worry about bringing enough shoes, enough clothes, or enough medical coverage. I like to think we worry more about power adapters, accessible storage and roaming data plans.
Our Homepage, like a Darwinian Finch, continues to evolve and we've added a couple new tabs to keep you up to date with the news, or up to date with everything, firehose style.
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Weekly Poll Results
When you're buying dev tools and components, which of these best help you make a decision?
Survey period: 15 Nov 2010 to 22 Nov 2010
Pick the ones you find most useful in analyzing, evaluating and buying products that help you get the job done.
| Option | Votes | % | ||
| Company reputation | 194 | 37.74 |  | |
| Compatibility | 177 | 34.44 | | |
| Documentation | 244 | 47.47 | | |
| Familiarity with company/brand | 128 | 24.90 | | |
| Features | 318 | 61.87 | | |
| Peer rankings, reviews | 160 | 31.13 | | |
| Price | 290 | 56.42 | | |
| Quality of support | 171 | 33.27 | | |
| Reliability, quality | 253 | 49.22 | | |
| Source code (where applicable) | 143 | 27.82 | | |
| Trial version/demo | 241 | 46.89 | | |
| Upgrade path | 65 | 12.65 | | |
| Other (please describe) | 20 | 3.89 | | |
| Responses | 512 | | ||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
View optional text answers (25 answers)
This week's survey: Do you get to talk to those who use your software?
Most popular new articles 15 Nov 2010 - 22 Nov 2010
- WPF rounded corners polygon - Liviu Ignat
- CP Vanity Lite - Nishant Sivakumar
- SharpVectors - SVG# Reloaded: An Introduction - Paul Selormey
- Mars Mission (2) : Explore the Solar System - Christ Kennedy
- No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of - Arik Poznanski
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 147 new, 99 updated, 0 moved. 18 were edited, 182 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
Dialogs and Windows
- Working with custom background bitmaps in dialog boxes and property sheets - Ingo A. Kubbilun
This article shows how to deal with controls that do not properly paint their background when using custom background bitmaps. (Unedited)
C++, Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), Win32, Win64, MFC, Architect, checkbox, User-controls, Color, winsdk, GUI
Shell and IE programming
- A simple and easy to use trayicon - pasztorpisti
A reusable trayicon class for C++ (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Dev
DirectX
- Stencil Buffer Glows - Part 1 - JimRL
A glow effect achieved by leveraging the stencil buffer. (Unedited)
C++, DirectX
C / C++ Language
- First Class C++ Enums - Chris Grimes
First Class C++ Enums
C++, Javascript, Dev, JSON
Articles updated added
Static & Panel Controls
- MZCrumbBar - A Generic Breadcrumb Controller - Mathias S.
A generic MFC breadcrumb controller that shows a clickable breadcrumb list.
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, MFC, Dev
Audio and Video
- nVLC - Roman Ginzburg
A .NET API for the libVLC interface so the vast majority of VLC functionality could be utilized in managed applications.
C++, C#, XML, Windows, .NET, Dev
C / C++ Language
- QxOrm - C++ ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library - QxOrm
QxOrm C++ library : persistence (based on QtSql Qt library) - serialization (based on boost::serialization library) - reflection (introspection) (Unedited)
C++, XML, SQL, Windows, Linux, collections, cross-platform, database, library, clone - Elucidating all about Code Analysis in Visual C++ - Ajay Vijayvargiya
Static Code Analysis: The Purpose, How to Analyze and Make your code Analyzable! (Unedited)
C++, VS2005, VS2008, VS2010
Internet / Network
- 3G Modem Internet Dialer - Amro Fawzy
3G Modem Internet Dialer (Unedited)
C++, Hardware
Tips and Tricks added
Printing
- Print XML documents well formatted by a WebBrowser with any orientation: Portrait & Landscape - liwei.contact
A sample project shows How to print XML documents by a WebBrowser control , with orientation setted programingly. (Unedited)
C++, C#, XML
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- Useful function for conversion between MBCS and WCS - dotcpp
Wrapping WideCharToMultiByte and MultiByteToWideChar (Unedited)
C++
Programming Tips
- A simple program to solve quadratic equations with - Michael Waters
I am reposting this because I accidentally deleted my first post.The solution is presented as a pair of complex roots, unless a == 0, in which case the equation is linear and returns a single complex(real) root.If a == 0 and b == 0, the function fails.Given a complex type, replace... (Unedited)
C++ - A simple program to solve quadratic equations with - Alain Rist
I prefer this :) #include #include #include #include static const double bad_double = std::numeric_limits::quiet_NaN();class QuadSolver{ static bool IsZero(double val) { return (val == 0) || (fabs(val) <... (Unedited)
C++
Technical blogs added
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