One of the new features of Visual Studio 11 is inserting C++ code snippets at a specified insertion point or around a selected block. Visual Studio 11 comes with a set of C++ code snippets but we can create and use our own, as well. Read on to learn more...
Silviu-Marius Ardelean offers some insight into _chkstk and stack corruption.
Use this macro to generate backups from Microsoft Visual Studio solution's context menu
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010. This article, by Scott Mitchell, looks at several new and exciting features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
This article presents some of the changes in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual C++, focusing on new the build system (MSBuild), multi-targeting, IntelliSense and browsing experience.
Microsoft-sponsored open source foundation names a new permanent board of directors as the effort aims to grow beyond its roots.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
