I have installed it, and devenv.exe process is indeed a 64-bit process.

That's probably because of your keyboard, or keyboard driver. Because if this, VS is seeing Ctrl is DOWN. Just hit Ctrl, Alt, Shift several times and keys state of all these will come to normal.

I successfully installed Win8 DP on VMWare Workstation 8.0. Just select Windows 7 as target OS, and disable floppy disk. Games will not run good on VM.

14-15 years ago, 256 speed started in India. And we are still plying on same speed? What man a 8 Mpbs connection speed, and 40 GB limit? Is there any comparison? And duhh.. you cross the limit and you'd get 256 Kbps - comparable? Check Internet speed reducing in India[^], which is just posted on Times Of India today! Many have said about infrastructure and other issues, but that's not the point. We do have both - infra and people! ISPs can facilitate higher speeds, but they limit! That's bad. Do I need to bay 17.2K per month to get 10mpbs unlimited? I cannot afford! And this ADSL isnt reliable at all - Internet would get disconnected, specially if I am not downloading/uploading any thing (a kind of ScreenSaver service running?).

Yes, I know the core engine is gdb. And yes, it support MT debugging, but not as rich as VS/Windows. As I said before, ptrace is not efficient, which is used for debugging. I dont care about internals of OS, when I need to develop on top of OS. You are fan of OS/kernel level development, but do you expect entire world to do the same, and not use the interface provided by the system? Why do I care how recursive-mutex works?

Security? Which flavour of *nix support NTFS or Access Based security than that 'rwx' based security on file? Almost all kernel objects have security attached with them? If you talk about OS security, where no one can attack - that's a different perspective, since not many are attacking Linux systems. And for programming environment and debugging-support, Windows is lightyears ahead of Linux. Windows has WaitForDebugEvent API, surrounded with other APIs that support native debugging. Linux has just a 'ptrace' which doesnt support multithreaded debugging, debugging a UI application, 'Edit-and-continue' feature and things like that. May be companies like Google, have developed their own debugging-system at OS level. I dont understand how programmers can live without a good development environment? Yes, for sure, networking is (probably) better than Windows. Someone said, down there in one of the posts that for Linux programmers there is more material available - I totally disagree. Take a look at pthread_create and CreateThread docs. Entire net would show the same 'man pthread_create' stuff, and just the MSDN doc says much more than for CreateThread, forget more info elsewhere.

I didn't say about "this" thread, but "that" thread on SO, which is NOT related to programming (which should be). "This" thread is not related to programming, as simple as that!

I dont understand that question. Is that related to programming?

Liked it a lot. Removed Chrome (which I installed ONLY for viewing sites that weren't opening in IE9 Beta). It is still missing Spell Check!

My somewhat different perspective. Rahul says, "I bought XYZ software of ABC company for $55.99. Quite good application!" Manoj says, "You are stupid. You PAID for software!!? Come on man, everything is available for free on Internet." Rahul probably won't buy any software next time. Will tolerate nagging screen that says it is not genuine.

With number-text parsing and recursion, yes! ;P

Yeah.. ! ;P

VS doesn't have formatting search! Finding references doesn't solve the purpose. I may need to find symbols having specific words, and I want to avoid all comments. Or take it other way: I want to find some text embedded in string.

In Visual Studio, any version, any programming language, with any available add-in - Is it possible to omit the comments for searching. Yes, you probably got it right. For example:

int main()
{
// this is main function which calls printf three times
printf("three");
printf("three");
printf("three");
}

And if I search 'three', 'printf' or other term that is ALSO in comment - VS will goto commented part as well which I dont want. Likewise, I may want to search only in comments. Or only/not-in strings.

modified on Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:09 AM

Caslen wrote:

An MS MVP generally has to show some aptitude or talent in the programming/IT field, whereas a CP MVP can be awarded for flooding the Lounge with dull and inane posts, making sh1t up, and pretending to be something you're not

So, it should be inferred that both aren't same and won't CPMVP won't get same benefits as MSMVP. What about Codeguru MVP, I guess they get benefits from Microsoft (like MSDN subscription)... :((

Now a stupid question! :^) Is CP MVP same as MS MVP?

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

Which is good, because it saves you from a whole class of subtle bugs. Explicit conversion is always better than implicit.

Heard of this umpteen number of times, but doesn't appease me at all. I am using a string-class for string, a text, and in C/C++ code it is supposed to mix with C-Style strings. The conversion is implicit to C-string and not from a C-string. You cannot assign a CString to char*/``wchar_t*, the compiler wont be happy. If you say you can put into const char*, and then do forceful conversion, then my friend, you are placing the so called "bug" by yourself. I mean, what a vector<char> would be called other than std::string? A good string-class must have string operations. Even in case, I wont have access to CString, I would write my own string-class, or download code written by some expert, instead of using this absurd std::string!

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

But that does not mean CString is any better.

Any better, compared to what?

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

I'd be interested to know why, especially as I do not have access to MFC.

For one, it does not support direct conversion to plain C-style strings. You must call set of methods. It does not support Format/sprintf type of functions, not methods to convert to upper/lower, methods to trim, convert from Unicode/ANSI string and things that should be part of a good "string manipulation class". See wxString, which I prefer over CString!

Other than CString (and not std::string) I use STL for everything else. std::string is terribly bad! For non-MFC project, you just need to include atlstr.h for CString (no DLL required).

I second you! I would also prefer to see list of quality articles, hot forum thread from within CP.