Tip Bank

Question: In designing a program, how do I know when to use an interface or a class?Is there a basic rule to follow? Answer: Java supports a limited form of

If small parts of your FrontPage Web change frequently, you can save a lot of time by inserting variables with the Substitution Bot. Any time you need to change the

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 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