December 14, 1999

In addition to the technique described in tip #453, “Assigning A Zero Value to All Members of A Struct”, C++ (but not C) offers another method of assigning all the

C++ defines a placement version of operator delete. Placement delete is not supposed to be called directly by the user. Rather, it merely serves as the deacllocation function that the

Pointers to members are one of the most intricate syntactic constructs in C++, and yet, they are a very powerful feature too. In future tips, I will discuss pointers to

While it is true that a multithreaded app is more responsive than a single threaded one, programmers who are new to multithreading are often misled into thinking that a multithreaded

Consider the following class and its global instance: // Foo.h class Foo { public: Foo() { RegisterSelf(); } private: void RegisterSelf() {/**/} };// Foo.cpp #include “Foo.h” Foo reg; // global

In older stages of C++, the ios::nocreate and ios::noreplace open modes were part of the family of classes. However, the revised family of file manipulation classes, which should be used

Question: I’m working on a database built for reporting purposes. Tables are updated once a month. Reporting queries are taking many hours to complete, some up to 26 hours. The

Question: I have a table in my SQL 7 database that, among other values, contains e-mails. There are duplicate e-mail values in this table. I want to extract one record

Question: I’m a Visual FoxPro 6.0 programmer and recently decided to use Visual Basic 6.0. Everything seemed to be fine in VB until it came to creating a report. The