Articles by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe (Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 6)

A class to monitor free disk space on a nominated drive

Property sheet and page classes for resizeable Wizard97 style Wizards

Utility to run PC-Lint on Visual C++ solutions and projects, generating XML and HTML reports of the results.

An application/add-in to organise and renumber resource symbol IDs

If you are new to PC-Lint, you may have wondered what message 830 ("Location cited in prior message") means, and - given that such messages can add greatly to the overall issue count in your file or project - what (if any) use are they?Quite simply, message 830 identifies a location in the codebase

A .lnt file is an "indirect file", which is simply a collection of PC-lint directives. Indirect files can be nested, and are expanded in the order they are encountered by PC-lint.However, if PC-lint encounters the same .lnt file twice in the same context during execution, it will abort with Fatal Er

Preamble [21st April 2009]Well, we're here at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel again, and for us ACCU 2009 starts tomorrow (though the pre-conference workshops happen on the Tuesday, we haven't booked onto one this year).We are a little more prepared this year than last - for example we now have a 6 foot ro

Last night we descended en-masse on Berliner Republik, a quirky bar where the beer prices go up and down according to demand (they even have a mini stock exchange - watch for the crashes and run for the bar!). Really good food, too. OK...onto today's sessions:Using Networking, trade shows and organi

Last night's reception at Maximilian's restaurant on Friedrichstraße was great fun. Good food, great beer (I particularly liked the Berliner Weiß) and fantastic company. After breakfast we set up our stand in the sponsor's area (complete with the usual last minute presentation edits). A r

Preamble [21st April 2009]Well, we're here at the Barcelo Oxford Hotel again, and for us ACCU 2009 starts tomorrow (though the pre-conference workshops happen on the Tuesday, we haven't booked onto one this year).We are a little more prepared this year than last - for example we now have a 6 foot ro