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Christmas is coming soon so in lieu of tinsel and fragile baubles we've given our article pages a little spruce-up to make things a little cleaner and a little clearer.
The other big news is that we will also soon be launching a new newsletter for our mobile developers. While the current newsletter (this thing you're reading!) is customisable, it's very generic, and very big, and we've had a lot of feedback from developers looking for something a little more focused.
We will start with Mobile as our feature topic mainly because that's been our pet topic in the office for the last few months. We'll send out the mobile newsletter for a few editions and after that only those who explicitly wish to receive it will continue to get it. Feedback is always welcome, and suggestions for the next newsletter would be great.
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Weekly Poll Results
Do you have a computer science degree?
Survey period: 6 Dec 2010 to 13 Dec 2010
Does your degree fit your vocation? (suggested by aspdotnetdev)
| Option | Votes | % | |
| I write software and I have a computer science degree | 633 | 48.62 |  |
| I write software and I do not have a computer science degree | 637 | 48.92 | |
| I do not write software and I have a computer science degree | 22 | 1.69 | |
| I do not write software and I do not have a computer science degree | 10 | 0.77 | |
| Total | 1302 | 100% | |
This week's survey: Should developers test their own code?
Most popular new articles 6 Dec 2010 - 13 Dec 2010
- WPF Speedster - Meshack Musundi
- Way to know which control have raised PostBack. - Hiren Solanki
- Windows Phone 7 – Toast Notification Using Windows Azure Cloud Service - prasad02
- Microsoft Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 - prasad02
- An UMDF driver for a virtual smart card reader - Fabio Ottavi
Latest Additions
200 articles overall 152 new, 97 updated, 1 moved. 18 were edited, 182 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
DirectX
- A Primer of DirectX Basics and the DirectX3D API - logicchild
An Article that desribes some essentials to help learn the DirectX technology (Unedited)
C++ (VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), DirectX, Dev, Framework
Libraries
- OpenAFX: A Free Class Library for Windows Programming - David Golub
A description of the OpenAFX class library for Windows programming in C++. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, MFC, Dev
Cryptography & Security
- Applied OpenSSL: CTR mode in file encryption - Apriorit Inc, Eugene Wineblat
In this article, the use of open source OpenSSL library for file and disk encryption is described (Unedited)
C++, Visual-Studio (VS2008), Dev, Encryption, Decryption
Articles updated added
Combo & List Boxes
- Win32 SDK PropertyGrid Made Easy - David MacDermot
This article describes the creation of a non-MFC custom PropertyGrid control.
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, Dev
Dialogs and Windows
- MFC/C++ Helper Class for Window Resizing - Mizan Rahman
Gives you total control when it comes to resizing windows
C++, Windows, Win32, MFC
Algorithms & Recipes
- Polyline Simplification - Elmar de Koning
A generic C++ implementation for n-dimensional Douglas-Peucker Approximation.
C++, Windows, Linux, MacOS, VS2008, Dev
Internet / Network
- 3G Modem Internet Dialer - Amro Fawzy
3G Modem Internet Dialer (Unedited)
C++, Hardware
Macros and Add-ins
- Visual C++ (version 7-9) .vcproj project file formatter and normalizer - pasztorpisti
A vcproj formatter that makes vcproj diffing/merging a breeze even with simple text-based mergers. Controllable text encoding. (Unedited)
C++ (VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0), Dev
Threads, Processes & IPC
- Monitoring of logon/logout in terminal and client sessions - Apriorit Inc, Elizaveta Golub
This article includes a description of the monitoring process for the session logon/logout, connect/disconnect (regarding terminal and client sessions). Obtained results will be then used in the next article "Creating process in the session". (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Architect, Dev, Threading, Process, multithreading, Boost - Starting process in the logged session under the local system account - Apriorit Inc, Elizaveta Golub
This article contains the description of how to start a process in the current active session on session logon notification event with permissions of system process running in the current session. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Architect, Dev, Threading, Process, multithreading, Boost
Tips and Tricks added
Dialogs and Windows
- How to bring window to top with SetForegroundWindow() - SHShadow
At first site you can use BOOL WINAPI ShowWindow(__in HWND hWnd,__in int nCmdShow); with SW_RESTORE in nCmdShow (msd link) and maybe it need to activate window before (not tested :)) (Unedited)
C++, Windows
DLLs & Assemblies
- Checking for exported symbols/functions in a DLL without loading it - pasztorpisti
You can find out if a DLL exports some symbols/functions without calling LoadLibrary() on it (Unedited)
C++, plugin, DLL
Programming Tips
- C++ Syntax Uncovered - Mohammad Nasim
Answers many whys in beginners head about C-Family languages syntax (Unedited)
C++, C++/CLI, C, C#, Java
Technical blogs added
Vista API
- EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API - Gil Fink
EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API One of the interesting features of Code First fluent API is the ability to configure inheritance in your model. Since one of the strengths of an O/RM solution is its ability to map inheritance then this feature is a must in every map (Unedited)
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