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Weekly Poll Results
If you could upgrade a single component in your brain, what would you choose?
Survey period: 28 Mar 2011 to 4 Apr 2011
Imagine your brain as an upgradeable computer and price was no option. (inspired by AspDotNetDev)
| Option | Votes | % | |
| Increased short term Memory | 102 | 8.92 |  |
| Faster Processor speed | 110 | 9.62 | |
| Faster memory | 36 | 3.15 | |
| More CPU cores / improved parallelism | 277 | 24.23 | |
| Faster access to long term storage | 143 | 12.51 | |
| Inceased long term storage | 151 | 13.21 | |
| A more efficient OS | 43 | 3.76 | |
| A more feature-rich OS | 57 | 4.99 | |
| A more reliable, robust and stable OS | 94 | 8.22 | |
| A dual- or multi-boot system | 50 | 4.37 | |
| Other | 66 | 5.77 | |
| Total | 1129 | 100% | |
View optional text answers (79 answers)
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Most popular new articles
28 Mar 2011 - 4 Apr 2011
- Snail Quest - Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
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- 3D Graphics for Windows Phone 7 Using the XNA Framework - vankaandreev
- LightSwitch and HTML - defwebserver
- How to Write Windows Shell Extension with .NET Languages - All-In-One Code Framework
Latest Additions
141 articles overall 94 new, 87 updated, 1 moved. 32 were edited, 109 unedited
Article topics listed: C++
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New articles added
C++ / CLI
- Compiler Internals - How Try/Catch/Throw are Interpreted by the Microsoft Compiler - Yanick Salzmann
An article on how Try/Catch/Throw are interpreted by the Microsoft Compiler
C++, Dev
ATL
- Practical ATL: Connection Point and two approaches to receive events - zhoufanglong
In this article, I show how to implement connection points and introduce two approaches to receive events that for the connectable ATL object. (Unedited)
C++, Windows, ATL
Win32/64 SDK & OS
- A simple wrapper for asynchronous file I/O (ReadFileEx,WriteFileEx) - Sudheesh.P.S
AsyncFile is a small wrapper class for simplifying the usage of asynchronous file APIs (Unedited)
C++ (VC6, VC10.0), Windows (WinXP, Win7), Win32, Dev, Design, Application, General
Uncategorised Tips and Tricks
- Parsing XML file in C/C++ program - Sergey Chepurin
DOM based XML parser with C/C++ code sample
C++, C, XML
Articles updated
Applications & Tools
- KeePass Password Safe - Dominik Reichl
KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe.
C++ (VC6, VC7, VC7.1), Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003), MFC, Dev
C / C++ Language
- MSEPX - Microsoft Security Essentials Process Exclusion Utility - twburger
A utility that allows point and click additions to the Microsoft Security Essentials process exclusion list
C++, Windows, Win32, Dev, system, threads
Internet / Network
- Remote Control PCs - Andy Bantly
Two projects that work together to remote control PCs across a LAN.
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
Tips and Tricks added
MFC
- C++: Converting an MFC CString to a std::string - Nightfox
C++: Converting an MFC CString to a std::string (Unedited)
C++, MFC, string, convert - C++: Converting an MFC CString to a std::string - jean Davy
As you use CString, you have access to the CW2A ATL macro, assuming that you work with _UNICODE defined, here it is:CString theCStr;...std::string STDStr( CW2A( theCStr.GetString() ) );which will convert to "system encoding on the user's machine" (thanks Nemanja[^] comment !), if you... (Unedited)
C++, MFC, string, convert
Programming Tips
- ASCII strings to Unicode in C++ - jean Davy
std::string source = "Hello World";std::wstring result( source.begin(), source.end() );One coding line less ! (Unedited)
C++, Unicode - The goto-less goto! - Jose David Pujo
Here goes my alternate.I am a C++ programmer. My goal is always to try to make code short and simple.bool bFailed=false;if (!bFailed) bFailed= condition1_fails;if (!bFailed) bFailed= condition2_fails;if (!bFailed) bFailed= condition3_fails;if (bFailed) DoFailedCleanup();else {... (Unedited)
C++, C#
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