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The term thunk dates back to the days of the antediluvian Algol programming language and has stuck since then. A thunk is an invisible and parameter-less function or procedure that

Dynamic linking — either in the form of shared libraries in Unix or Windows DLLs — is not defined by standard C++. However, this is a widely used feature among

A typical way in which constants or global variables are defined in Java is to define a class so it stores all the constant variables which are marked as

It is sometimes necessary to get the exception’s stack trace as String (for logging, reporting, etc.). Unfortunately, the Exception class itself provides only the getMessage() method which does not include

The concept of a variable argument list is rather common: void f(const char *format,

It is often helpful to provide a

There is a very simple way to get around the compile error when passing UDT (user-defined type) in procedure between forms. Just declare the procedure as Friend instead of Public.Example:

This function resizes the column headers to fit the ListView. It can be used in the Form_Resize event or just in Form_Load. ‘Module: Module1Option ExplicitPrivate Type RECT Left As Long

One of the peculiar features of Microsoft SQL Server is its capability to keep alive multiple threads at the same time for performing I/O operations. The configuration options that affects