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Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft has made available the release candidates for the new Windows and the new Visual Studio tool set. Some of the products have been renamed: Windows Server 2012 is the new name for Windows 8...
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Visual Studio 2012 and git
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 will bring support in Visual Studio and TFS for git. They already used git on codeplex and this move shows how popular git has become. I don’t...
View ArticleCDatabase bug in MFC in VS2012
After migrating an MFC application from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2012 I run into an unexpected error: the application was having problem fetching data from the SQL Server database. After...
View Articleerror C3510: cannot locate dependent type library ”...
Problem I have recently migrated a C# 2.0 project registered for COM interop to .NET 4.5 and when I imported the type library in a C++ project with no_registry, suddenly I got some errors because the...
View ArticleSecond CDatabase bug in MFC in Visual Studio 2012
I was writing recently about an MFC bug in CDatabase class in Visual Studio 2012. In the meanwhile I have stumbled upon an even greater bug (check this report on Connect for the details): when the...
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NuGet package for cpplinq
NuGet has recently added support for native projects. This simplifies a lot deployment of native libraries. Even though cpplinq is not a big library (in fact is just a header file) I have created a...
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Visual Studio 2012 Debugger Visualizer for CPtrArray
CPtrArray is a nasty MFC container that should not be used. However, if you deal with legacy code you may not have a choice and have to work with it. Unfortunately, the Visual Studio debugger is not...
View ArticleFull-fledged client-server example with C++ REST SDK 1.1.0
In my previous post I shown how you can build a C++ application with the C++ REST SDK that fetches search results from a search engine. In this post I will go a step further and develop a client-server...
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