June 26, 1998

Question: What threading model does DPB use? Apartment? I’d like to use PB to create MTS components for an Active Server Pages project. Do you foresee any problems? Any advice?

Question: How can I make a PB application as a service on Windows NT? I have an application that has no interaction with users, and I want to run it

If you need an object serving only as a function argument, you can use an explicit constructor call to instantiate a nameless object rather than a named one: void putPixel(const

Ownership in its OO sense relates to the responsibility for the creation and the destruction of an object. An object (in its broader sense) is an owner of some other

Typedefs can be used to enhance portability by hiding the underlying type of an more abstract entity. For instance, when maximal precision of a floating point is required, one type

C++ still supports C-style type casting in the form of ‘(T) e’ as in: int i = (int) 7.333; Nonetheless, this casting notation is not recommended. What is amiss with

It’s handy to catch potential exceptions in a bottom-down hierarchy: specific exceptions are handled first, then groups of exceptions and finally, a catch-all handler: #include //std::except is the base class

Often, when adding Crystal reports to your system, you’ll find that userswant the same basic report grouped different ways, like sales reports bycustomer state or salesman or region, and so