I’ve been doing a lot of managed C++ programming lately and I had forgotten what a pain it is switching back and forth between the header file and source file.  Back in the days of Visual Studio 6 I had a macro that switched between the CPP and H file, so I went googling, but [...]

Here is a cool Visual Studio feature that almost nobody knows about. If you want to open up a file in your solution, but can’t be bothered to dig down through your projects and folders to find it, try this,

Click in the Find box in the toolbar,
Type >of followed by a space, then begin the [...]

New Rule: Make sure your parameter names are consistent between your declarations and definitions in C++.
Here is why…
I was trying to debug some C++/CLR code today when I ran into an interesting behavior (bug?) in Visual Studio 2005. I had a breakpoint in the first line of my method which I hit fine. I then [...]

Version 4.2.2 of my favorite Notepad replacement was released yesterday. If you haven’t tried it, Notepad++ is worth the download. It is a free, full featured, source code editor and Notepad replacement. Over the years, I have tried several different text editors, but this is the one that I finally settled on.
The feature list of [...]