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Monday, October 16, 2006 3:14 PM

Writing Solid Code

My apologies to Steve Maguire for "borrowing" a title. I constantly see code, examples, and advice that perpetuate unsafe coding practices. As programmers we have the habit of getting something to a "working" state and call it "done"...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:19 PM

Has ANSI C/C++ Been Perpetuating Unsecure Computing?

Whatever Happened to sprintf(..., "%n", ...)? Strsafe.h: Safer String Handling in C Security Enhancements in the CRT Many 3rd party libraries model their API around the ANSI C/C++ libraries, introducing the capability of buffer overruns. Is...
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Monday, September 25, 2006 9:48 AM

Save CBitmap to File

It has always astounded me why the CBitmap class never implemented saving to a file. Here's a nice and tidy way: #include <atlimage.h> #include <Gdiplusimaging.h> //... CBitmap bitmap; bitmap.CreateBitmap(width, height, 1, 32, rgbData...
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