Best C++ Article of February 2014

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

A Lock Free Doubly Linked List

12 Feb 2014SarmadAsghar

C++

Windows

Dev

Architect

threads

Remote debugging Windows Azure Cloud Services from Visual Studio 2013

9 Feb 2014AssemblySoft

When your cloud services have been deployed and things are maybe not going quite as you expected, the first thing you may turn to is diagnostics.

C++

Windows

JSONsvc - a "proxy-peer/peer" protocol for Websockets

1 Feb 2014tonywilk

A JSON-based protocol for sharing data between multimple clients over Websockets

Tracking BSTR Memory Allocations to Find Memory Leaks

13 Feb 2014Eyal Rosner

If you are looking for memory leaks related to BSTR pointers, this tip might be very relevant for you.

The A::Restricted Idiom

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Fine grained access control to private members of a class

C++

All-Topics

Variable Declaration and Initialization

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Variable Declaration and Initialization

C++

All-Topics

Emulating in, out and inout Function Parameters – Part 2

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Emulating in, out and inout function parameters in C++

C++

All-Topics

Emulating in, out and inout Function Parameters – Part 1

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Emulating in, out and inout function parameters in C++

C++

All-Topics

Declaration and Initialization with Auto

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Guidelines about the auto keyword of C++11 for variable declaration

C++

The Widget::O Idiom

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Widget::O Idiom

C++

All-Topics

Emulating final

25 Feb 2014Gabor Fekete

Emulating the final keyword

C++

Controlling a R.C. Car with Windows Phone and Bluetooth

12 Feb 2014Joel Ivory Johnson

A walk through on modifying an RC car to be controlled by a Windows Phone

List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs

28 Mar 2023Yvan Rodrigues

Complete list of GUIDs found in .csproj files and their descriptions

C++

Visual-Studio

Debugging Release Projects in C++ - Finding the Lost Object Information

26 Jul 2016Yochai Timmer

Debugging C++ projects in release. Finding the lost object information

Code Injection

28 Feb 2014_Ravikant Tiwari_

This program will demonstrate the process of injecting code into already running processes. Here we have choosen to inject into Explorer

Counting Occurrences

6 Feb 2014CPallini

A simple algorithm for counting occurrences of symbols in files

Lua

C++

Fast digital I/O for Arduino

9 Mar 2015Jan Dolinay

This article describes faster but still easy-to-use version of digital I/O for Arduino

Tiny XML Serializer for C++

13 Feb 2014Lothar Perr

Simple and lightweight XML Serialization using tinyxml2

SEH vs C++ exceptions

6 Feb 2014Adamanteus

Intercepting SEH exceptions in C++ program

Part 4: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Memory Leaks (Perfmon)

13 Feb 2014shailesh91082

This is Part4 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focussed on Memory Leaks

C++

Windows

Dev

Matrix Printer Class

24 Feb 2014PJ Arends

A C++ class that makes it easy to print text in clearly defined rows and columns

Part 5: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Memory Leaks (CRT APIs)

13 Feb 2014shailesh91082

This is Part 5 of various Techniques to Debug Applications on Windows, focused on Memory Leaks

C++

Windows

Dev

Type Rich Style for C++11

10 Feb 2014Ilia Glizerin

How to implement the type rich style recommended, as recommended by Bjarne Stroustrup

C++

Design

Dev

Tracking Microsoft Solutions (a Newer SCM tool)

13 Feb 2014sbarnes

A small utility that feature-creeped into Yet Another SCM tool - a useful app to examine

Improve Code Clarity with Typedef

9 Feb 2014Paul M Watt

How to improve code clarity with Typedef

vmime.NET - Smtp, Pop3, Imap Library (for C++ and .NET)

20 Aug 2014Elmue

With this project, C++ and .NET Windows programmers get a very versatile library to send and download emails via SMTP, POP3 and IMAP with TLS and SSL support.

SW Message Bus

10 Jun 2014Evgeny Zavalkovsky

SW Message Bus represents message flow abstraction mechanism in a complex, multithreaded SW system.

Concentration of all the Lessons in Common Win32 Project

4 Feb 2014Petrov Vladimir

Ssupport for the tutorials and lessons on OpenGL

HTML

C++

PHP

Desktop Sharing using RDP APIs and Socket

24 Nov 2015nuclear_sun

You can share a peer's desktop with any others using this software, designate the sharer and viewers in any way you can imagine. Detailed development document and user manual can be found in the Download.

IWebBrowser2 Wrapper Class

5 Mar 2014David Johns

A class that wraps the IWebBrowser2 interface of Microsoft Internet Explorer to enable you to browse, print and save web content programatically

Extract List of Codes of Windows-Messages from WinUser.H

23 Feb 2014Saeed Masoumy Rad

Reasons to abandon (and replace) QRegExp in your Qt project

22 Apr 2014Marco Bertschi

A quick overview why you should abandon Qt's QRegExp class and move on to use QRegularExpression

C++

regular-expression

Design patterns in action with Arduino

19 Feb 2014Vedat Ozan Oner

A sample project with Arduino.

Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 2

16 Jul 2014SarmadAsghar

Building on My SQL Storage Engines and APIs to Conduct Complex Analysis Using SQL Query Language: Part 2

Longest Common Suffix In Strings

12 Feb 2014Shiva Varshovi_

There are so many recipies to get the Longest Common Substring from two given strings...

C++

Expression Parsing and Nested Properties

25 Feb 2014n.podbielski

Expression Parsing and Nested Properties

C++

Windows

Scheduler Library for Arduino

21 Feb 2014Vedat Ozan Oner

Revised timer for Arduino

Depth First Search (DFS) Non-recursive

9 Feb 2014Shiva Varshovi_

DFS algorithm to print the element of a Binary Search Tree in order in which just by traversing with a DFS algorithm is possible

C++

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

_Ravikant Tiwari_

Engineer

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Adamanteus

Software Developer LLC "AMS"

Russian Federation

In 1991 year has received senior secondary education and entered in Moscow Economic-statistical Institute, by faculty of Supply mathematics, has studied to 2-nd course with high progress, and left it by own will.

With 1994-1996 years - serviced in army (navy fleet, now sailor of a stock).

Since 1999 year has begun my labour career, with job of computer operator, in department of computer maintenance developing learn-methodical documentation.

Single, on religion - atheist.

AssemblySoft

Architect AssemblySoft

United Kingdom

Carl Randall is the founder of AssemblySoft.com where he offers freelancing services. He has specialized in Information Technology solutions for over 20 years. Specializing in full life-cycle development projects for both enterprise-wide systems, desktop applications and Internet based solutions. Carl is a Microsoft Cloud expert.

Carl has been involved in .Net since it's inception and is currently a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (Enterprise).

You can read a little more from Carl from his personal blog: https://www.carlrandall.net/ which covers Azure, Blazor and .Net topics.

When not coding and designing, Carl enjoys playing table tennis, tennis, sailing and spending time by the beach - when the british weather permits Wink | ;)

CPallini

Software Developer (Senior) Biotecnica Instruments S.p.A.

Italy

Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
-- The Klingon programmer

Beelzebub for his friends [^].

David Johns

Web Developer

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Elmue

Software Developer (Senior) ElmüSoft

Chile

Software Engineer since 40 years.

Evgeny Zavalkovsky

Software Developer Box

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Eyal Rosner

Architect - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Unknown

My specialities are at the area of crash dump analysis, memory leaks tracking, network traffic analysis, advanced debugging technics and software security

Gabor Fekete

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ilia Glizerin

Student

Israel

programmer

Jan Dolinay

Employed (other) Tomas Bata University in Zlin

Czech Republic

Works at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. Teaches embedded systems programming. Interested in programming in general and especially in programming microcontrollers.

Joel Ivory Johnson

Software Developer

United States

I attended Southern Polytechnic State University and earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and later returned to earn a Masters of Science in Software Engineering. I've largely developed solutions that are based on a mix of Microsoft technologies with open source technologies mixed in. I've got an interest in astronomy and you'll see that interest overflow into some of my code project articles from time to time.

J2i.net

Twitter:@j2inet

Instagram: j2inet

Lothar Perr

p++ Datentechnik GmbH

Germany

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Marco Bertschi

Switzerland

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

n.podbielski

Software Developer

Poland

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

nuclear_sun

Technical Lead student

China

I am a postgraduate student in China, I would like to absorb fresh things !

Paul M Watt

Engineer

United States

I am a software architect and I have been developing software for nearly two decades. Over the years I have learned to value maintainable solutions first. This has allowed me to adapt my projects to meet the challenges that inevitably appear during development. I use the most beneficial short-term achievements to drive the software I develop towards a long-term vision.

C++ is my strongest language. However, I have also used x86 ASM, ARM ASM, C, C#, JAVA, Python, and JavaScript to solve programming problems. I have worked in a variety of industries throughout my career, which include:
• Manufacturing
• Consumer Products
• Virtualization
• Computer Infrastructure Management
• DoD Contracting

My experience spans these hardware types and operating systems:
• Desktop
o Windows (Full-stack: GUI, Application, Service, Kernel Driver)
o Linux (Application, Daemon)
• Mobile Devices
o Windows CE / Windows Phone
o Linux
• Embedded Devices
o VxWorks (RTOS)
o Greenhills Linux
o Embedded Windows XP

I am a Mentor and frequent contributor to CodeProject.com with tutorial articles that teach others about the inner workings of the Windows APIs.

I am the creator of an open source project on GitHub called Alchemy[^], which is an open-source compile-time data serialization library.

I maintain my own repository and blog at CodeOfTheDamned.com/[^], because code maintenance does not have to be a living hell.

Petrov Vladimir

Russian Federation

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

PJ Arends

President

Canada

Father of two, brother of two, child of two.
Spouse to one, uncle to many, friend to lots.
Farmer, carpenter, mechanic, electrician, but definitely not a plumber.
Likes walks with the wife, board games, card games, travel, and camping in the summer.
High school graduate, college drop-out.
Hobby programmer who knows C++ with MFC and the STL.
Has dabbled with BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, C#, SQL, ASM, and HTML.
Realized long ago that programming is fun when there is nobody pressuring you with schedules and timelines.

Saeed Masoumy Rad

Engineer

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

I am an electronics engineer with great interests in computer science since childhood. I have already developed some useful software-projects, which are being used in different industries to solve data processing and management problems.

SarmadAsghar

Team Leader VF

Pakistan

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

sbarnes

CEO

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

shailesh91082

Architect

India

A Technology Enthusiast since 14 Years, have been contributing in varied Domains. Interested in developing technology which goes more meaning to Human Life, Nature and the entire ecosystem.

#Developer, #Architect, #Enthusiast, #Contributor #Mentor

To all Developers out there, You touch a Billion Lives a Billion Times
Before you code Think Twice !!!

Shiva Varshovi_

Software Developer

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

tonywilk

Founder

United Kingdom

Developer in just about anything from 6502 machine code thru C, C++ and now things like PHP and javascript. Used to develop hardware and still dabble with electronics and ham radio when I'm not letting off pyrotechnics, shooting or flying my VPM M16 gyroplane.

Vedat Ozan Oner

Engineer Mevoo Ltd

United Kingdom

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Yochai Timmer

Team Leader

Israel

http://stackoverflow.com/users/536086/yochai-timmer

Yvan Rodrigues

Engineer Robotic Assistance Devices / AITX

Canada

Yvan Rodrigues has 30 years of experience in information systems and software development for the industry. He is Senior Concept Designer at Robotic Assistance Devices

He is a Certified Technician (C.Tech.), a professional designation granted by the Institute of Engineering Technology of Ontario (IETO).

Yvan draws on experience as owner of Red Cell Innovation Inc., Mabel's Labels Inc. as Manager of Systems and Development, the University of Waterloo as Information Systems Manager, and OTTO Motors as Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Concept Designer.

Yvan is currently focused on design of embedded systems.

First Prize	shailesh91082 - Part 4: Windows Debugging Techniques - Debugging Memory Leaks (Perfmon)
Prize pool	CodeProject Laptop Sleeve - CodeProject


Second Prize	Elmue - vmime.NET - Smtp, Pop3, Imap Library (for C++ and .NET)
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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