http://www.devx.com Latest DevX Content en-us Copyright 2008 DevX http://backend.userland.com/rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:52:19 PST http://services.devx.com/outgoing/devxwire.gif http://www.DevX.com Leverage these new features in C# 4.0 to interoperate with new dynamic .NET languages, and simplify your code. http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/42262?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Joydip Kanjilal Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:05 PST Migrate your fixed-sized sequences to std::array, which offers a secure, efficient, and convenient alternative to built-in arrays—sans the overhead of vector. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/42114?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Danny Kalev Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:16:26 PST A good parasite class promotes the use of objects that are never destroyed, a controversial notion in C++. So why use it? What other advantages does it offer? Can you declare additional member functions in such a class? The inventor of the good parasite technique explains. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/41907?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Danny Kalev Fri, 22 May 2009 16:02:38 PST Avoid postfix operators when incrementing composite objects. http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/41757?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Bashir Nabeel Mon, 18 May 2009 19:19:39 PST Learn how to use attributes, a new C++09 feature, to specify additional information about your programming constructs conveniently and portably. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/41694?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Danny Kalev Thu, 14 May 2009 16:19:00 PST Templates are one of the most powerful features in C++, and variadic templates make them even more powerful. Variadic templates in the C++0x standard library can greatly simplify the writing of type-safe code with variable numbers of arguments. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/41533?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Anthony Williams Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:48:48 PST Your C++ application doesn't have to allocate a new chunk of memory on every loop iteration. Learn how to implement a single raw memory buffer that knows how to clear itself securely. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/41475?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Danny Kalev Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:06:53 PST Building fluent programmatic interfaces lets users make calls in natural ways similar to speech. http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/41394?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Neal Ford Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:07:57 PST Negative array indices can cause unexpected behavior when porting an application from 32 to 64 bits. http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/41349?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Akash Agrawal Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:29:07 PST You can initialize C++09 Standard Library containers with a list of initializers, but what about your homemade container classes? Sequence constructors enable you to initialize instances of your homemade classes in a similar fashion. http://www.devx.com/cplus/Article/41141?trk=DXRSS_CPLUS Danny Kalev Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:23:50 PST