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Desktop Programming
MFC
3 Sep 2013   Updated: 10 Sep 2013   Rating: 4.97/5    Votes: 44   Popularity: 8.01
Licence: CPOL    Views: 163,663     Bookmarked: 68   Downloaded: 1,034
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Memory reallocation generated by string concatenations can create performance bottlenecks. .NET has System.Text.StringBuilder, JavaScript has Array.join, and we have string::reserve.
WTL
22 Feb 2004   Updated: 20 Apr 2004   Rating: 4.81/5    Votes: 14   Popularity: 5.36
Licence: CPOL    Views: 53,950     Bookmarked: 26   Downloaded: 1,995
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A mix-in class to help drop files into WTL windows.
3 Mar 2004   Updated: 20 Apr 2004   Rating: 4.56/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.37
Licence: GPL3    Views: 161,609     Bookmarked: 64   Downloaded: 5,531
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Put a Progress Bar in a pane of your status bar with just three lines of code, or a bitmap, animation or anything with a HWND with just one.
17 Jun 2004   Updated: 4 Aug 2004   Rating: 4.95/5    Votes: 52   Popularity: 8.37
Licence: GPL3    Views: 131,513     Bookmarked: 65   Downloaded: 4,426
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After you design your dialogs in Visual Studio, use the WTL Class Wizard to turn them into WTL classes and not just from Visual Studio 6!
3 May 2004   Updated: 10 Sep 2013   Rating: 4.65/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.95
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A mix-in class to change the appearance of a dialog, by handling WM_CTLCOLOR* messages, with five lines of code.
General Programming
30 Jan 2012   Updated: 30 Jan 2012   Rating: 4.96/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.97
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Do you believe that memory corruption will generate an immediate, repeatable crash? Some programmers actually do...
Programming Languages
C++
4 May 2012   Updated: 11 Nov 2012   Rating: 4.83/5    Votes: 49   Popularity: 8.16
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Dangling pointers were a problem in the past, but nowadays we'll find none, right? Guess again...

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C#
29 Jan 2012   Updated: 29 Jan 2012   Rating: 3.85/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.69
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You can make it a bit shorter: public virtual bool IsDebug { get { #if (DEBUG) return true; #else return false; #endif } }Thanks for sharing,
C++
24 Jan 2012   Updated: 24 Jan 2012   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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If the .lib files you're linking to represent some .dll files somewhere else, you can do the following:void main(){ FunB(); // from external_1.lib FunC(); // from external_2.lib // FunA(); // from external_1.lib / external_2.lib ???? typedef void (WINAPI *...

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Pablo writes code for a living, in C++, C#, and SQL.

To make all that work easier, he uses some C++ libraries: STL, ATL & WTL (to write Windows applications), and code generation.

Pablo was born in 1963, got married in 1998, and is the proud father of two wonderful girls.

Favorite quotes:
"Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", published in several newspapers between 1881 and 1906).
"You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).