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Concurrent Containers

A recurrent question (well, one of the many) is about STL containers and whether they are thread safe.Taking Stephan’s words here, the reality is that they aren’t, not as a bug but as a feature: having every member function of every STL container acquiring an internal lock would annihilate performance. As a general purpose, highly ...
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ActiveX Test Container Application is Still Available

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team.  I’ve noticed some posts on various forums lamenting the loss of the ActiveX Test Container application and I wanted to address those concerns. The ActiveX Text Container tool is still available as a sample in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.  It is ...
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