eople hate to wait. In fact, when it comes to a computer, they hate to wait more than about 200 milliseconds. This can be a problem when your Web-based application
enerally, STL containers handle their storage automatically and efficiently. Yet, there are cases when you need to regulate a container’s storage manually?for example when you want to trim or empty
oost takes you far beyond the C++ Standard Library, making C++ programming more elegant, robust, and productive. Now, for the first time, a leading Boost expert systematically introduces the broad
ne feature introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 is the use of the “provider model” to provide maximum flexibility and extensibility to your Web applications. Using the provider model, developers can easily
++ implicitly converts the operands’ types in expressions that involve different datatypes. Here’s a few examples: int n=5;double d=n; //5 implicitly converted to 5.0if (n==d) //same here Many programmers don’t
our months ago, Microsoft publicized a list of features that could cause existing Visual C++ apps to break when migrated to Visual Studio 2005. Many of these features are core
n this world of emerging technologies and modern, ultra-small, and super-capable electronic devices, there is still a place of honor for printers. People haven’t completely switched to soft copies. There
mplementing XML processing in C++ can be a headache. Parsing and building XML documents with DOM takes a lot of coding and it’s slow, error prone, and not resistant to
A lambda expression enables you to define an unnamed function?directly on the call site of an algorithm. Such unnamed functions are chiefly useful in functional programming, generic libraries, and scientific