Blue Desk

While developing WinSafe , it’s very common to convert the Windows integral data types to their Rust equivalent. Care must be taken, howeve...

Just for the record, these are the settings I’m always using with Visual Studio 2019, when creating a new, empty C++ project: General ...

During my 20 years or so writing Win32 programs, I always relied on SetFocus to focus a control. However, I always noticed a weird behavior...

WinLamb , as the name itself implies, is heavily based on lambda functions. While searching a way to enforce the lambda signatures in the up...

Today, while researching for the upcoming C++17 version of WinLamb , I was rethinking the idea of restricting the allowed types on a templat...

I was having a weird memory leak report in a C++ program, happening right after I close it, and triggered by a call to _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks ,...

Months ago I noticed that WinLamb was missing a simple, introductory example. I never really had time to write and publish one. Until today...

This week I released a new SRTEd version 1.3.1, with has minor, but many usability improvements. Also, it’s built with latest version of Win...

Just wondering about a short, expressive and alternative way to implement bitflags in C++11 . Right now I don’t plan to adopt this idiom...

C++ is a poorly designed programming language, and I live a love-hate relatioship with it. On my vacation days, when working on WinLamb f...

So finally I released a new version of SRTEd , my own subtitles editor. Honestly, in these four years I didn’t see a better subtitle editor,...

After upgrading my Visual C++ 2015 from Update 1 to Update 2, I noticed that a new file appeared in the root directory of the projects I was...

When using the STL with Visual Studio 2015 – and older versions, probably –, C++ exceptions are enabled by default. To view the options spe...

It’s with a feeling of “I knew it already” that I read this note, from 2010 , where Evernote team abandons C# and rewrite the whole thing ...

When experimenting with some C99 features of C , I found a very cool trick to have named parameters, using a feature called designated init...

I’ve been doing a lot of C++11 research and coding ultimately, and I’m still upset with the C++ exceptions . When reading the concepts, it s...

There are a couple of project settings that I set for every native C++ Win32 project I want to start, basically, more aggressive optimizatio...

Until I started using move semantics of C++11, I used this smart pointer class, which is template-based, heavily relies on operator overloa...

Right now I’m testing Visual C++ 2013, which implements some interesting innovations from C++11 specification. I started taking a look at so...

After a couple months of work, it has just been published on CNet’s Download.com my newest program: SRTEd , a visual and portable editor to...