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Testing a Business Rule Should Not Have Any Side Effects by Patrick Marshall Testing a business rule should have no side effects. Avoid err.raise and msgboxes inside business rule tests.
Add Testing Code to a Class With Static Inner Classes by Shantanu Garg Static inner classes are pretty simple in concept and implementation.
Private Access by Tareq Shaheen This tip clarifies the meaning of
A template for building collection class modules by Francesco Balena The following is a template for building collection class modules in a very quick and effective way. Copy-and-paste this code into Notepad, that save it to a file named "COLLECTION CLASS.CLS" in the \TEMPLATE\CLASSES subdirectory under the main VB6 directory: VERSION 1.0 CLASS BEGIN
Accessing a Private Data Member from a Different Object by Danny Kalev Different objects of the same class can access each other's members, even if these members are private. For ...
Accessing Class Members From the Static Member Function by Rajesh Chathapuram When a class has Thread entry functions, it is usually declared as static member functions of the class as in the example ...
How to Use an Abstract Class and Define Its Abstract Methods at Instantiation by Ngo Minh Suppose you have an abstract class MyAbstractClass with an abstract method ...
Why Static Methods Can Only Make Calls to Static Methods by Shantanu Garg Write the following code, compile it, then try to run ...
Using Memset On Class Objects by Nitin Kumar It's common practice in C, to do a memset on structures, in order to initialize all member variables to some default value, usually NULL. Similarly, you can use memset to initialize class objects.
Structs and Unions by C.S. Niranjan It is common knowledge that the only difference between a struct and a union in C is that all elements of a union share the same memory location but the elements of struct do not. In C++, a ...
Exception Handling, Inheritance and the Need For Strict Rules by Anil Nair Java has some strict rules for exception handling when it comes to inheritance and overriding of methods.
Forward Declaration of Classes and Structs by Danny Kalev You can use the keywords class and struct in forward declarations interchangeably. For ...
Covariant Template Parameters by Danny Kalev Suppose you need to define a function that takes a vector object and performs certain operations on it. The function has to be generic, that is, it should handle all instances of std::vector in ...
Function Object Bases by Danny Kalev To simplify the process of writing custom function objects, the Standard Library provides two classes that serve as base classes of such objects: std::unary_function and std::binary_function. ...
Avoiding Dependencies #2 by Jon Jagger Many C++ programmers will be familiar with the tidal wave of recompilations that occur when a seemingly unrelated header file is changed. C++ file dependencies need to be managed otherwise ...
Avoiding Dependencies #1 by Jon Jagger Many C++ programmers will be familiar with the tidal wave of recompilations that occur when a seemingly unrelated header file is changed. C++ file dependencies need to be managed otherwise ...
Don't Forget the Closing Semicolon in Class Definitions by Danny Kalev Here's a very common error. You define a class but forgot to add a semicolon after the closing }. For ...
Copy Constructor's Signatures by Danny Kalev C++ defines four possible forms for a class's copy constructor. For a class called X, a copy constructor can have one of the following ...
Qualified Calls by Danny Kalev A function call such as the ...
"Setter" and "Getter" Member Functions by Danny Kalev Encapsulation is a fundamental principle in object orientation. Encapsulation restricts direct access to a data member of a class. Instead, users query the object itself in order to get or set its ...
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