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Congratulations to the January winners of our Windows Azure Marketplace Competition. Each won an Intel i7 laptop!
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- Emily Cowan: http://performancecircle.cloudapp.net/
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Weekly Poll Results
Are you a Java developer?
Survey period: 7 Feb 2011 to 14 Feb 2011
Which of the following frameworks / tools are you currently using for Java development (check all that apply)
| Option | Votes | % | ||
| Spring | 65 | 7.51 |  | |
| JBoss | 26 | 3.01 | | |
| Hibernate | 66 | 7.63 | | |
| Swing | 62 | 7.17 | | |
| Eclipse | 176 | 20.35 | | |
| GlassFish | 28 | 3.24 | | |
| JavaServer Faces (JSF) | 30 | 3.47 | | |
| Struts | 27 | 3.12 | | |
| NetBeans | 116 | 13.41 | | |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 20 | 2.31 | | |
| Other | 44 | 5.09 | | |
| I don't develop in Java | 589 | 68.09 | | |
| Responses | 865 | | ||
| Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100% | ||||
Most popular new articles
7 Feb 2011 - 14 Feb 2011
- WPF : A Weird 3d based control - Sacha Barber
- Making F1 do something useful in Visual Studio - OriginalGriff
- AbortIfSafe - Paulo Zemek
- Handling Enhanced Mouse Wheels in your Application - Tanvi K Shah, Steve H Davis
- Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 - Prism Modules - Nick Polyak
Latest Additions
173 articles overall 117 new, 99 updated, 1 moved. 20 were edited, 153 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
List Controls
- How to Add a Checkbox to a List View Column Header - Vince Valenti
An example of how to add a checkbox the a list view column header. We also implement select/unselect all when a user toggles the checkbox. (Unedited)
C++, Windows (Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2), Win32, ATL, WTL, Dev, checkbox, UI, ListView, Code, ListControl
DirectX
- Stencil Buffer Glows - Part 2 - JimRL
Create a more robust glow with basic post processing. (Unedited)
C++, DirectX
C / C++ Language
- Full getopt port for Unicode and Multibyte Microsoft Visual C and C++ projects - Ludvik Jerabek
Supports getopt, getopt_long, and getopt_long_only and POSIXLY_CORRECT environment flag (Unedited)
C++, C, Windows
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- SetUnhandledExceptionFilter and the C/C++ Runtime Library - Cristian Adam
This article presents a fix for SetUnhandledExceptionFilter to work with the CRT. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, Win32, Win64, Dev
Internet / Network
- Posting to an ASP via Windows Sockets in C - DethNile
Posting data to a Internet server made easy with a slick C/C++ class wrapping a call to windows sockets (Unedited)
C++, C, Windows, Win32, Dev
String handling
- Dynamic String Arrays in 3D - csrss
This article describes creating and managing 1D, 2D and 3D string arrays
C++, C, Windows, Dev
Design and Architecture
- Command Pattern at Work in a Database Application - Mukit, Ataul
A practical example of command pattern applied in a database application (Unedited)
C++, MFC
Hardware & System
- Handling Enhanced Mouse Wheels in your Application - Tanvi K Shah, Steve H Davis
How to give your users a smooth scrolling experience with High Resolution Mouse Wheels (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), Windows (Vista, Win7), Win32, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
Articles updated
Applications & Tools
- ToDoList 6.1.7 Feature Release - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g.
A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, MFC, CEO, Architect, DBA, Dev, QA
OpenGL
- PicZoom: A Photo Viewer created in OpenGL. - santhosh4gCode
PicZoom: A Photo Viewer created in OpenGL. (Unedited)
VC8.0, Windows, MFC, GDI+, OpenGL, tools, software
DLLs & Assemblies
- Interface-based programming, Runtime class discovery, Dynamic class loading from DLL - steveb
Interface-based programming, Runtime class discovery, Dynamic class loading from DLL (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, VC9.0, VC10.0), C++/CLI, MFC, COM, COM+
Threads, Processes & IPC
- Yet another implementation of a lock-free circular array queue - Faustino Frechilla
A circular array based lock-free queue with no memory allocation on the heap and no ABA problem (Unedited)
C++, Windows, .NET, Linux, Architect, Dev, Threading, Scheduler, coding, Algorithms - Win32 Thread Pool - Siddharth R Barman
An implementation of a Thread Pool in C++ for Windows
C++ (VC6, VC7.1), Windows, Dev
Tips and Tricks added
Programming Tips
- Underappreciated articles - The number of articles here on CodeProject is as we all know - HUGE - and some gems are easily lost in this ocean of knowledge - Espen Harlinn
Articles I feel, and hope, people will appreciate. (Unedited)
C++, C# - The goto-less goto! - sergio_ykz
As this piece of code is normally a function, should be more readable if all of it is put inside a function returning a bool, indicating success or failure.The cleanup function could be only resource deallocation, not a function at all. If it is intended to use with C++ or C#, a try..finally... (Unedited)
C++, C# - The goto-less goto! - Jörgen Sigvardsson
Usually, gotos are used to clean up resources when exiting a function. I would recommend using the RAII[^] idiom. It also works works well in the presence of exceptions.For C# I would use IDisposable/using. If that's not possible, I'd use a finally clause to clean up.Everything else... (Unedited)
C++, C# - The goto-less goto! - Wolfgang_Baron
If you really have to put everything into a single function and want to keep the code analyzable and maybe want to be able put some common code at the end, you can always use a success variable. The code does not slow down, as the compiler optimizes the sequenced if-conditions away and produces... (Unedited)
C++, C#
Debug Tips
- Debugging Android NDK 5 (b) C++ Multithreaded Applications Manually - Rafael Akchurin
Make this ndk-gdb finally work with threads (Unedited)
C++, Android
Technical blogs added
Files and Folders
- How to Deploy Files in Different Servers with Team Build - ozkar garcia
How to Deploy Files in Different Servers with Team Build (Unedited)
C++, Windows
Windows Phone 7
- Professional Audio Recorder - rudigrobler
An audio recorder for Windows Phone 7. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, MFC
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