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A Shorthand for Internationalization

The software industry uses the term “I18N” as an abbreviation for the terminternationalization. The idea is that I18N begins with an i, ends with an n, and has 18 characters

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Shorthand for Assignment Expressions

For recursive assignment expressions such as the following: x = x+5; x= x/5;x = x * 5; C++ defines shorter versions that eliminate the need to repeat the variable’s name

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Parenthesize Complex Expressions for Clarity

Although C++ clearly defines operators’ precedence, the compiler is allowed to compute subexpressions with identical precedence in a platform-defined order. Besides, many programmers don’t remember which operators have higher precedence

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Referring to a Class Member

You can refer to a name of a class member only in one of the following contexts: In the scope of its class or a class derived from its class

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STL Set Performance

Question: How do I improve an integer set’s performance when it is used in multithreaded environment? Answer: Many factors affect a multithreaded application’s performance: the operating system, the duration of

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Initialization of Built-In Types

Question: What does the declaration int i(0) ; mean? Does C++ have a type ‘int’ constructor? And why doesn’t Visual C++ accept a char* p(0) ; declaration? Answer: This expression

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Saving Form Data Within the Form Format

Question: I want users to be able to save a partially completed form, preferably to their hard disk with a user specified name, so that they can retrieve the file

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Using the CDO for NTS Library With WML

Question: I have installed the library in my server but when I try to do Server.CreateObject(“CDONTS.NewMail”) in my ASP file, it returns an error: ‘ASP 0177 : 800401f3’ “Server.CreateObject failed”