Archive for January, 2008

A handy macro for Visual C++ developers: BuildStartupProject

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I can't believe I did not know this before: it's possible to set up Visual Studio to use F7 to build the startup project rather than the selected one! As a matter of fact, that was the default behavior of the F7 key in Visual Studio 6.0, but then ...

WinUnit and Structured Exception Handling (SEH)

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Recently I was working on a native C/C++ library, and I was searching for a good unit testing framework to use with it. I took a look at TUT, CppUnit, and a couple of others, and was trying to decide which one to choose, when a new issue (February 2008) of the ...

Virtually everything

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Being in the software business, I have to upgrade my main development machine rather often. When switching to a new computer, the most frustrating part of the process is setting it up just the way I like it. That means not only moving the source code and other ...