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Beware of throwing exceptions from a destructor

The most plausible way to report a failure during object construction is by throwing an exception. However, this is not recommended for destructors. The problem is that a destructor may

When is virtual inheritance needed?

Multiple inheritance is a powerful and useful feature in C++, but it can lead to a problem known as the DDD or “Deadly Diamond of Derivation”, as in this case:

Strange linked list

Question: How can I create a linked list that contains different datatypes? For example: assume that I have Human as a basic class. Man and Woman are two children to

CE2 accessibility options

Question: This might not be right on topic, but I’m hoping to receive an answer by e-mail. My daughter, eight, has cerebral palsy and can use only her left hand.

Mainframe connectivity

Question: I am looking for a way to use VB to connect and retrieve information from a VAX mainframe. The computer has a windows 95 emulation terminal program, and I

find and replace values loaded in memory

Question: I am trying to write a program that will search memory for a hexadecimal string and replace it with the values hardcoded in my program. It’s a game cheat

WinCE / Access97

Question: Can you design an Access97 application to run on a Windows CE machine? Has this been done? By whom? And finally, do you need to create a runtime version