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Using reflection to ease code maintenance
Currently I am programming an application for performing code analysis on the software that controls the production process. Apart from the parsing of the code, and iterating across a hierarchical representation of the expression tree, all these rules...
Extending a native C++ project with managed code
One question that comes up from time to time in the newsgroups is ‘I have a native C++ project and I want to extend it with Managed code (e.g. Windows Forms). What do I do?’ The answer is not so complex. It is fairly easy to extend native...
Excel and OleDb stupidity
This afternoon I was working on a Windows Forms app for the finance guys, to help them allocate costs to systems, proportional to predefined allocation keys. The app has to import Excel spreadsheet files and perform all the database actions. The key columns...
LINQ To SQL......Server 2005
I am programming a small application for our finance department, for which I wanted to use LINQ for performing the data access, using Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Unfortunately -and no thanks to MSDN- I found out that currently there is only support...
Posted: Wed, Dec 5 2007 6:06 by vanDooren | with no comments
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I stand corrected: not all C++ programmers hate VB
As I already mentioned before, it's a small world after all. (Hearing that annoying Disney tune yet in your head J ). I am writing an article about C++/CLI in which I use a quote from my fellow VC++ MVP Kate Gregory. I did a quick search to find her...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1 2007 16:02 by vanDooren | with no comments
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Executing LabVIEW VIs through C style function pointers via .NET
Problems exist to be solved. Some problems are so complex that you cannot solve them when you need to. With other problems it is not a matter of complexity, but a matter of not having all the pieces of the puzzle. Some problems are so interesting that...