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.

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.

Learn how to use attributes, a new C++09 feature, to specify additional information about your programming constructs conveniently and portably.

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.

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.

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.

An abstract base class from which concrete classes are derived is a very common idiom in object-oriented code. So common indeed that a special design pattern called Factory was devised to simplify the runtime creation of derived objects elegantly . Learn Factory can boost your code's reliability and performance.

Experts predict that 2009 will be the year of the functional programming paradigm. The revised and enhanced C++0x lambda expressions syntax provides you with exactly the right tools for painless functional programming. Learn how lambda expressions can boost your code and eliminate tedious manual coding.

Are you tired of Windows Explorer in Vista changing your folder views? Here's a registry tweak that solves the problem.

Prior to C++0x, multithreaded C++ applications relied on platform-specific features that were neither portable nor easy to grasp. C++0x fixes this omission with a new multithreading library. Learn how to use this new library to write portable and clean multithreaded C++ code.

Not only does C++98 have four different syntactic forms for initializing class objects, aggregates, char arrays and scalar types, it doesn't let you initialize member arrays and dynamically allocated arrays at all. Learn how C++0x fixes these flaws with a uniform and intuitive initialization syntax.

Conversion functions are inherently unsafe as they might surprise you with implicit conversions over which you have no control. This is why such functions have been avoided for years. Learn how the new C++0x explicit conversion functions put an end to years of conversion functions blues.

C++0x now offers a safer and extremely versatile smart pointer class called std::unique_ptr. Learn how to implement strict ownership semantics with unique_ptr and benefit from its diverse services—customized deleters, safe usage with containers and algorithms, and array handling.

From its nascent pre-processor in 1979 to today's incredibly sophisticated language features and libraries, we've documented each step along the way.

It's been 10 years since the first ISO C++ standard, and 2009 will bring us the second. In this special report, DevX delves into the new features being discussed by the standards team. Learn how these new features will revolutionize the way you code.

In this overview of the changes proposed for the new standard, you'll get an idea of the kinds of improvements you can expect this time around.

C++0x concepts bring the full power of the Generic Programming paradigm to C++, making templates more expressive, easier to write, and easier to use. Spectacularly poor template error messages are a thing of the past!

The new standard will support multithreading, with a new thread library. Find out how this will improve porting code, and reduce the number of APIs and syntaxes you use.

C++ founding father assesses the language on the eve of its new standard.

C++03 offers no portable mechanism for querying the alignment of a certain type, let alone overriding the default alignment. This vexing state of affairs is about to change with the addition of two new built-in operators to C++0x.