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C++/CLI
In the last entry, I celebrated what I felt was an elegant solution to the problem of the string...
Date: 12/08/2004
In the course of these entries, I have twice addressed the issue of the type of a string literal...
Date: 12/04/2004
A value type is typically not subject to garbage collection except in two cases: (a) when it is the...
Date: 08/27/2004
C and C++ programmers are notorious for relying on pointer indirection, and it seems blog entries...
Date: 08/21/2004
Part of the (reasonably pleasant) distractions from posting on this blog recently has been working...
Date: 08/14/2004
Recently, someone asked me why we support both class and typename within C++ to indicate a type...
Date: 08/11/2004
Sorry it is taking me so long these days. I am in the throes of more formal writing – a book...
Date: 08/01/2004
A reader questions the nature of the value type when he writes, Sender: Slawomir...
Date: 07/23/2004
A reader asks, Sender: Jackre: String Literals are now a Trivial Conversion to StringWon't it break...
Date: 07/23/2004
A reader asks, Sender: Jackre: String Literals are now a Trivial Conversion to StringWon't it break...
Date: 07/23/2004
There was a recent internal thread on the resolution of the following set of overloaded member...
Date: 07/19/2004
A reader asks the following question, Sender: bv re: A Question about Copy Constructors in C++/CLI...
Date: 06/04/2004
A surprising thread that has emerged has to do with libraries. Here is an representative example,...
Date: 06/04/2004
A reader asks, Sender: Erik Brendengen Is there an easy way to convert from String^ to std::string?...
Date: 06/02/2004
A reader asks the following question, Sender: Richard Hsu Stan, Would you suggest, for those of us...
Date: 06/02/2004
A reader writes Sender: Brian Braatz ===================================== I posted the following to...
Date: 05/28/2004
Without thinking too hard I had held the following precept: std::string is to ISO C++ as...
Date: 05/20/2004
A reader comments Sender: Joe Pacheco ===================================== re: Integrating Dispose...
Date: 05/13/2004
A reader comments re: Changes in Destructor Semantics in Support of Deterministic Finalization I...
Date: 04/29/2004
In the original language design, a class destructor was permitted within a reference class but not...
Date: 03/25/2004
Comments from Stan Lippman's BLog: Jon Flandersre: Value Type ReduxI think it is always important to...
Date: 03/09/2004
I’d like to thank Yves Dolce for responding to Wesner Moise who writes: Sender: Wesner Moise...
Date: 02/26/2004
For the work I’ve been engaged in currently in machine translation of the original language...
Date: 02/26/2004
The declaration of a managed array object in the original language design was a slightly...
Date: 02/16/2004
A reader, Yves Dolce, writes: Related to your last blog entry: The Astonishing S"Literal" String...
Date: 02/13/2004
indranil banerjee writes re: Virtual Function Behavior Between ISO C++ and C++/CLI Revisited Thanks...
Date: 02/12/2004
One of the astonishing infelicities of the original language design was the unflagged overhead of...
Date: 02/11/2004
I seem to have rather badly explained the `virtual function invocation within a constructor...
Date: 02/09/2004
I received the following mail the other day in response to my writing that the Visual C++ compiler...
Date: 02/03/2004
In part 1 of this discussion [the January 28th Blog entry], I pointed out a different behavior...
Date: 01/30/2004
A reader, Chris Hanson, writes: re: A Fundamental Difference in Class Behavior between the Native...
Date: 01/29/2004
I have used two primary metaphors in my discussions of bring C++ to the .NET platform. In terms of...
Date: 01/28/2004
A reader, J. Daniel Smith, inquiries You wrote “The absence of const support in the base class...
Date: 01/22/2004
Daniel O'Connell writes, re: Followup: The Absence of MI Hmm, Copy constructors...One would hope...
Date: 01/20/2004
A reader writes the following from the initial posting on this blog: re: The Revised C++ Language...
Date: 01/19/2004
What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? __try_cast becomes safe_cast<>...
Date: 01/08/2004
What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Conversion Operators ...
Date: 12/17/2003
What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Delegates and Events The...
Date: 12/15/2003
What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Declaring Indexed Properties In...
Date: 12/12/2003
What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Declaring Properties In the original language...
Date: 12/11/2003
What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Implicit Boxing Ok, so we...
Date: 12/10/2003
What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Support for Operator Overloading ...
Date: 12/09/2003
What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? The Declaration of a Managed Enum Type ...
Date: 12/08/2003
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