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Do and Do Not in C Programming
- 25 May 2025
This post is originally written in 2012. It was lost when moving my web site from Office Live to Windows Live Spaces. I found a dead link to my web site and found an archive from archive.org. So here it is the old article.
Don’t
Troubleshooting a memory leak
- 27 February 2021
Got called into a memory leak troubleshooting.
The application was leaking memory at 1mb per second. In memory profiler, most of the growing memory are used by byte[] and RuntimeMethodHandle (growing at around a million per minute). Initially I thought it is a disposing problem, but the memory occupied by disposable objects does not increase over time.
Coding Horror
- 04 February 2010
In this post, there are several things programmer complain their predecessor
hundreds of forms named form1,form2, etc
STL/CLR, Compiler and Marshaling
- 12 April 2007
MSDN第9频道又采访了Visual C++类库组的项目经理Nikola Dudar和Sarita Bafna，以及质量控制组的Marina Polishchuk。尽管Visual C++项目组已经转移了工作重点，但是很少人注意到这一点。或许这些采访可以帮助你了解Visual C++项目组的工作。 为什么C++仍旧重要？
非托管的应用程序有很大的代码积累，而这些程序的升级工作仍旧在进行
性能是选择C++的重要因素。举例来说，游戏和杀毒程序更适合用非托管代码来编写。
多平台支持。虽然.Net号称是跨平台的，但是如果要编写真正的跨平台程序，开发的时候遵循C++标准还是很有必要的。
为什么C++程序员仍旧重要？
C++程序员理解整个机器的运作，他们知道怎么写垃圾收集机制，甚至可以写机器代码
C++程序员可以很容易的学会其他语言——C++已经是最难学的语言之一了
C++程序员并不只使用一种语言。如果有必要的话，他们会选择汇编、C#或者Perl这样更适合特定任务的语言。
为什么Visual C++项目组转移了工作重点？
C++程序员对于转到C#没有抵触心理，所以Visual C++项目组不认为有必要尽快实现Visual C#支持的所有特性，比如LINQ和WPF设计器
C++程序员对于让他们的非托管程序调用其他语言的托管代码比用C++来写托管代码更有兴趣
核心模块，例如IE和Windows外壳会更加频繁地更新，而会有更多的非托管代码需要调用这些新的特性，为了这些特性，有必要在MFC中引入新的封装类来节省C++程序员的时间
Orcas中Visual C++的新特性：
托管代码互操作库。可扩展的托管数据类型和非托管数据类型的转换支持
STL/CLR。使得托管代码可以利用旧的STL编写的算法
Vista支持。对Vista中新的通用控件和文件对话框等界面元素的MFC封装。
DevExpess重构引擎——将包含DevExpess的Refactor!™ for C++。
Orcas之后的考虑
更新界面。有些Visual C++的代码是针对20年之前的硬件环境设计的，已经不适合现在的需要。新的Phoenix编译引擎使得重写前台变得更加容易。
太多现有的代码需要重构。新的Phoenix编译引擎使得代码分析变得更加容易。
C++标准。新的C++标准TR1可能会在Orcas下一版本开发时成为正式标准。
多核支持。需要编写可以充分利用多CPU的代码。第一个尝试是LINQ。
结论
MFC和非托管代码回来了
性能和多平台支持的重要性越来越低，托管代码仍旧具有很大的市场。
Visual C++项目组的其他动作
ATL Server发布到了源代码共享站点CodePlex。这包含CAtlRegExp，在.Net和第三方类库(boost,TR1)的竞争下已经不再有必要维护一个单独的条件表达式标准了
‘The Microsoft Code’ by Adam Barr
- 23 June 2006
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The man smirked. “My work here is done. Thanks to your little reboot stunt, your account has already been terminated. Within 15 minutes your cardkey will cease to work. You’ll be paying full price for Office for the rest of your life!”
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Talking about Where does power come from?
- 03 November 2005
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The teacher said this confidently: Believe me, ten years later, you will still find those words insightful.Planning=PowerI do believe so.
People who are able to plan, and to implement the plans which facilitate innovation and change are invaluable.
According to Clementino Mendonca’s speech “The new MSF - competing with development process “, only 16% chaos (unplanned or almost unplanned) software projects were successful. Although I don’t remember the success rate of methodized software projects, I am sure it is much higher than the chaos model.
In China, as far as I know, most “workshop” style software companies use chaos models. It may be improved by using the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System, but I am not sure about it, since other software management products, such as Visual Source Safe, are not widely used in these companies.
See also
Agile software development (Wikipedia)
Waterfall model (Wikipedia)