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Declaring Pointers to Member Functions

Pointers to member functions consists of the member function’s return type, the class name followed by ::, the pointer’s name, and the function’s parameter list. For example, a pointer to

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Returning an Argument by Reference

Question: What exactly returns a C++ function if it returns an object by a reference like: Person& GetNextPerson(); Please explain at assembly level, if possible. Answer: Assembly speaking, such a

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Updating a VB6 DLL on the Web Server

Question: We have Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 running Active Server Pages (ASP) with a Visual Basic 6.0 DLL serving data content to the ASP pages. The problem lies when

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Equivalent functions for Unchecked Conversion

Question: Are there any functions/libraries that can perform the Unchecked_Conversion function in Ada? We are writing a program that will read a bitstream. Upon determining the type, we want to

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Accessing Arrays

Question: Normally, you access an array by the number of the element you want. Is it possible, in C++, to access an element by the value and return the number?

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C++ Comments

Question: Why isn’t C commenting style preferred in C++? C commenting style definitely looks neater and more readable than the C++ commenting style. Answer: /* comments in C++ are just

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Overloading The ! Operator

Question: Is it possible to have a postfix version of the ! operator? Answer: No, you cannot alter the associativity, ordering and position of built-in operators when you create an

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Data Source Name Not Found Error ‘80004005’

Question: What does this error message mean? Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error ‘80004005’ [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified /SampleProject/default.asp,