Coding Tidbit

Looking to incorporate Antimalware scanning on Windows? Look no further than this article. C++ and C# code included. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5331133/Bring-Antimalware-Scanning-into-your-Application

Hi guys, please take note of a major development in C++ world. Read it at the link below. https://shaovoon.github.io/article/const.html

Looking to implement Windows Toast Notification for your C++ application? Want to know how I fixed memory leaks in WinToast (updated 15 Feb 2022)? Look no further than this article.

Interested to find out what these assembly instructions with the same source and destination operands do? XOR EAX, EAX TEST EBX, EBX MOV EDI, EDI

Come in to read my article Find GDI Leaks With Windows Debugger at CodeProject

Recently, I need to capture the mouse cursor in my homebrew screen capture application, so my search sent me to StackOverflow’s Capture screen shot with mouse cursor. Out of curiosity, I ran Deleaker on it and it finds 2 HBITMAP leaks with every capture. My application captures mouse cursor 30 times per second, so the […]

Recently, I encountered program crashes because of unscoped enum as array index pattern once in the workplace and another in an open source library where I added another item in the enum. Evidently, this anti-pattern is very popular among C++ developers. Open source code using Enum as Array Index pattern without bound check in its […]

“Isn’t April Fools over?” the very first thought running through your mind after glancing at the title. Rest assured, this is not a trolling post to make a fool out of you. This year’s April Fool post is here, in case you missed the once-in-a-lifetime C++ joke of its kind. This article is about slowing […]

In the biggest change to C++ syntax, -> and :: operators are to be replaced by . operator in the upcoming C++23 AF00L proposal. The rationale behind this proposal is there can be no confusion (as to which operator to use). The :: operator is not only used in scope resolution and also as class-to-static_member. […]