Best C++ article of November 2013

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

C++ Class Members and Friends

22 Nov 2013pi19404

This article tells us how to grant access to its non public members by the use of friend mechanism.

C++

An autonomous roving vehicle Part 1 of n

24 Nov 2013Mike Hankey

A start to finish project outlining the steps and pitfalls of creating an autonomous rover.

C++ is Fun: Writing a Tic Tac Toe Game

4 Nov 2013Marius Bancila

This article shows how to create a Tic Tac Toe game in C++ using different technologies such as Win32 and WinRT to prove that writing code in C++ is as fun and productive as in other programming languages.

OpenGL / OpenCL Interoperability : A Case Study Using Autostereograms

23 Jul 2014martin_bisson

How to use OpenCL with OpenGL to implement algorithms on GPU.

How to Parse Empty Tokens using CString::Tokenize()

24 Nov 2013SoMad

The example for CStringT::Tokenize() on the MSDN page (and just about everywhere else on the Internet) skips empty tokens. Here is how to use it in order to get empty strings instead of simply skipping those fields.

C++

MFC

CString

Simple Grid - A Win32 message based grid control

8 Mar 2016David MacDermot

A simple to use grid control for Windows SDK C applications.

Fast by tens malloc() and free() at 25% memory cost

11 Nov 2013altomaltes

An insigth in the heap "C" memory system.

Scientific Data Visualizer

7 Nov 2013Alexander Chernosvitov

ActiveX component for 3D visualization, embedded in different client applications.

C++ Const, Volatile Type Qualifiers

23 Nov 2013pi19404

This article describes basic concepts of C++ const and volatile type qualifiers.

C++

All-Topics

UIColor - Why Hast Though Forsaken Me!?

23 Nov 2013NSProgrammer

In this post, I'm going to take a very short amount of time making everyone's color coding lives easier with some UIColor code extensions.

Objective-C

C++ static members and function

25 Nov 2013pi19404

This article describes basic concepts of C++ Storage Access Specifiers.

C++

Windows

MFC

Bitmap in Source File

14 Nov 2013JJMatthews

How To Place your common bitmaps inside your source files

C++

Windows

Read user input or Enter

15 Nov 2013Orjan Westin

Reading an input of any type, or simply enter, from the command line

Part1: Overcoming Windows 8.1's deprecation of GetVersionEx and GetVersion APIs

6 Nov 2013Ehsan A Samani

GetWindows Version on Windows 8.1

Fastest Exact/Fuzzy/Wildcard Full-text Searcher!?

20 Nov 2014Sanmayce

Optimized multi-threaded console full-text searcher

Windows

Win32

Dev

Part 2: Overcoming Windows 8.1's Deprecation of GetVersionEx and GetVersion APIs

5 Nov 2013Ehsan A Samani

Get Windows Version from WMI

Generic Lazy Evaluation in C++

19 Nov 2013Ali AslRousta

How to implement a generic lazy evaluation class using C++11 features.

C++

STL

How to use the preview of the new Azure Management APIs, SDK 2.2

7 Nov 2013IInjac

How to use the preview of the new Azure Management APIs, SDK 2.2.

C++

Windows

A Large Integer Class

5 Nov 2013Bill_Hallahan

Large Integer class acts similar to built-in type

Fetching the name of your Windows Phone 8

11 Nov 2013Hadrich Mohamed

This article shows you how to fetch the name of your Windows Phone 8 using some C++/CX code.

C++

Windows-Phone-8

Asynchronous calls in C++ and MFC using boost and tbb

1 Nov 2013Gabi Barcan

Call methods of an existing class in MFC asynchronously, while still preserving the thread affinity required by MFC and COM.

Meta Programming in ANKHOR

12 Nov 2013Alexander Golde

Meta Programming is a concept that dates back to languages such as LISP or Smalltalk. The term is used for programs that write or modify other programs – or perform operations on themselves.

C++

Windows

MFC

C++ Inheritance

25 Nov 2013pi19404

This article describes basic concepts of C++ Inheritance mechanism.

C++

All-Topics

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Alexander Chernosvitov

Instructor / Trainer Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic Universi

Russian Federation

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University professor,
Microsoft Authorized Educational Center trainer,
Microsoft Certified Professional (C# Desktop Apps and MFC)
Lectures on OOP, C# and C++, Windows programming with C# and C++.
Have long practice and experience in finding the right way to formulate and numerically solve differential equations.

Alexander Golde

Software Developer (Senior)

Germany

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Alfred Molnar

Software Developer

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ali AslRousta

Software Developer AKSCE Co.

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

altomaltes

Software Developer (Senior)

Spain

Involved in tecnology since 18, especially in "low level program". Started with electronics, z80 assembler, i86 assembler, PASCAL, C (microcontrollers), C++. Some awards won in electronic magazines. Some interesting m2m projects. Using and teaching linux since 1995. Degree in electronics.
Creative temperament. This made me well know at work by every folk soon.
Got fun in nature and travelling.

Bill_Hallahan

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

I'm an electrical engineer who has spend most of my career writing software. My background includes Digital Signal Processing, Multimedia programming, Robotics, Text-To-Speech, and Storage products. Most of the code that I've written is in C, C++ and Python. I know Object Oriented Design and I'm a proponent of Design Patterns.

My hobbies include writing software for fun, amateur radio, chess, and performing magic, mostly for charities.

David MacDermot

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Ehsan A Samani

CEO NanoToolkit, Inc

United States

I have been doing some sort of Software Development since 1998. I started with C Programming but quickly upgraded to C++. I am proficient in Windows UI, Windows Server/Service, COM, C# and WinForms, C# and Asp.net. I can also claim some know-how in VB.NET and java. Every once in a while I hone in my scripting skills by doing more JQuery and Powershell but I quickly forget it all. I also have a working knowledge of CSS and HTML as well.
check out my Blog

Hadrich Mohamed

Student

Tunisia

Microsoft Certified Professional, Big Data and Cloud Architect.
Mail : hadrichmed@gmail.com

IInjac

Software Developer ExGrip LCC

Germany

Working as professional freelancer for the last 5 years. Specialized on and addicted to .NET and a huge fan of Windows Azure from the beginning. Socializing people of all areas, from CEO's to co-workers. Consider myself as a social architect.

Now the proud owner of ExGrip LLC - building mobile cloud experiences. Our latest product "Tap-O-Mizer" is shortly in Beta2. It enables you to see what really needs to be changed in your Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8 app (in real-time, if needed), to ensure customer satisfaction.

Started authorship for "Pluralsight - Hardcore Developer Training" and going to publish the first course on Windows Azure soon.

A few years ago I made a major shift from developer to "devsigner".Focusing my creativity also on great user experiences on Windows, Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Utilizing Expression Design, Expression Blend, Photoshop and Illustrator.

I started developing my first programs on a Commodore C64 (basic and assembly) at the age of fourteen years. Later on an Amiga 500 (C++). After that I made the shift to DOS and Windows from version 3.11 and up.

To me the most important part of developing new experiences is to work with creative and outstanding people and to bring new, exciting ideas to life.

I strongly believe that everyone can be a hero if he/she get's pushed and motivated and valued. Therefore, and that under any circumstances: "People first!"

Specialties:Extremely motivated and pushing people to create results.

JJMatthews

Software Developer

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Marius Bancila

Architect Visma Software

Romania

Marius Bancila is the author of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook and The Modern C++ Challenge. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006, initially for VC++ and nowadays for Development technologies. He works as a system architect for Visma, a Norwegian-based company. He works with various technologies, both managed and unmanaged, for desktop, cloud, and mobile, mainly developing with VC++ and VC#. He keeps a blog at http://www.mariusbancila.ro/blog, focused on Windows programming. You can follow Marius on Twitter at @mariusbancila.

martin_bisson

Canada

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mike Hankey

Retired

United States

Currently enjoying retirement and working on projects without pressure, deadlines or any kind of management.

NSProgrammer

Technical Lead

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Orjan Westin

Software Developer (Senior)

Sweden

Orjan has worked as a professional developer - in Sweden and England - since 1993, using a range of languages (C++, Pascal, Delphi, C, C#, Visual Basic, Python and assemblers), but tends to return to C++.

pi19404

Student IIT Bombay

India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Sanmayce

Other

Bulgaria

A Bulgarian old boy interested in search techniques, nothing special.

SoMad

Architect

United States

Born and raised in Denmark. Moved to California in 2001.

2013 - Present: Working in the Medical Imaging field.
2001 - 2013: Worked on development of PC based video surveillance systems.

I am not really mad (all the time), but SoMad seems like an amusing spin on my real name, Soren Madsen.

	David MacDermot - Simple Grid - A Win32 message based grid control
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