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November 13th, 2000 — Microsoft Visual Studio 7 Preview — Martyn Lovell
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Visual Studio 7 is due to be launched early next year, and is Microsoft’s first real deliverable in their .NET initiative. Martyn Lovell of Microsoft will give a preview of Visual Studio 7, concentrating on C# and ASP …
October 2000: No Meeting
September 13th, 2000 — Change the Way You Write Exception-Safe Code, Forever — Andrei Alexandrescu
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This talk presents the subtle issues associated with writing correct code in the presence of exceptions. Writing exception-safe code is a must for preserving the sanity of any application. This task is daunting because exceptions introduce hidden control flows …
August 9th, 2000 — Building a High Performance Server Product on Win NT/2000 Using C/C++ — Chris Hickman & Joe Mullally
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Joe will start by talking about building a high performance server product on Win NT/2000 using C/C++. Specifically:
- I/O Completion Ports
- Object and Context Pooling
- Protocol and Error Mapping
- When and How to use Spinlock vs …
July 2000: No Meeting
June 2000: No Meeting
May 10th, 2000 — C++ Exceptions — Bobby Schmidt
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Overview of C++ exceptions, their rationale, and their usage. Followed with discussion of standard library support, exception safety considerations, and comparison with Microsoft’s SEH. Exception “gotchas” and wisdom sprinkled throughout :^) Talk assumes you understand the rudiments of C …
April 12th, 2000 — Testing Object-Oriented Software — Steve Tockey
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This presentation is an overview of software testing techniques with special emphasis on the application of those techniques to object-oriented software.
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Steve Tockey is Vice President of Consulting at Construx Software in Bellevue. Steve has been employed in …
March 8th, 2000 — Real-World Class Design — Mark Wiseman
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There is a lot you may need to consider when designing a C++ class including ease of use, reusability, extensibility, and portability, etc.. All of these considerations may suffer because of the real-world pressures of time and money. Mark …
February 15th, 2000 — Datatypes++, A C++ Class Library for Windows — Tom Dowdell
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Tom, a NWCPP member, will introduce his company, Intuitive Edge Corp., and Datatypes++, Intuitive Edge’s first product. Datatypes++ is a C++ class library for Windows that extends C++’s datatypes to text, exact numeric, date, time, binary, bitset …
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