In October 2003, a new ECMA standards committee was formed to create an international standard for “C++/CLI,” a set of C++ extensions for .NET programming designed by Microsoft in collaboration with C++ industry …
Please note that in order to offset some of the costs necessary to host this meeting, there will be a $10 charge to non-NWCPP and non-WSA members. Membership in the NWCPP is free, and is …
Traditional procedural approach to thread programming is to create a thread and pass it a function to execute. But a function operates on data. The data is most likely shared with other threads. In the object-oriented world data comes …
Ask any developer, and they will tell you that multithreaded programming is hard. Very hard. One staple of this difficult style of programming is the effective and thorough use of mutexes and critical sections. Unfortunately this technique can be …
The Bizarro World of hetero_stack, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RTTI, or Alignment, Exceptions and Type-Safety, Oh My! or Subverting the C++ Type System for Fun and Profit.
hetero_stack is a dynamic replacement for the …
An overview of the newest version of Visual C++, codenamed Everett. New features including the IDE, project system, forms designer, compiler, debugger, conformance, security and library improvements are explained or demonstrated. Tips and possible breaking changes will also be …
Everybody knows the adage “Resource acquisition is initialization.” Not many people know that this simple principle gave rise to the whole methodology of Resource Management (RM). Bartosz will try to convince us that RM is better than garbage collection …
Attend this talk to learn about Mojo, the new framework, library, and coding guideline that enables you to pass and return values without fearing that copying temporaries is going to ruin runtime performance or your code review. Mojo guarantees …
The talk will focus on C/C++ unit testing and test-driven development using the CuTest library. CuTest is simple, portable, and follows the JUnit look and feel in its output and API. The topics covered will include:
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