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C#	Design Patterns Part 1 - The Strategy Pattern 17 Jan 2010 Updated: 17 Jan 2010 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 82 Popularity: 9.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 140,636 Bookmarked: 174 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article exploring the Strategy Pattern as part of the Design Patterns series. We look at an example using MD5/SHA256 hashing algorithms for strings.
	Design Patterns Part 2 - The Factory Pattern 8 Feb 2010 Updated: 8 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 74 Popularity: 8.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 129,764 Bookmarked: 153 Downloaded: 1,193 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The second part in WebBiscuit's design pattern series, this one examining the factory pattern. We look at an example of coping with ever-changing requirements by programming to interfaces and allowing the factory pattern to decide on the implementation.

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Win32	Your ADO is Broken [Technical Blog] 13 Jul 2011 Updated: 17 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 75,826 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Microsoft has violated the holy rules of COM and broken their msado15.dll. The violation occurs after the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (version 6.1.7601.17514).
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	An Introduction to Three VC++ Macros: How They Came To Be [Technical Blog] 25 Nov 2011 Updated: 7 Dec 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,460 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to three VC++ Macros: How they came to be
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C++	The Resource in RAII [Technical Blog] 3 Jul 2010 Updated: 3 Jul 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,291 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. So far we have concentrated on the 'AII!' part of RAII, so now let's look at the important bit, the R, the Resource.
	Base64 Encoder and Boost [Technical Blog] 3 Apr 2012 Updated: 3 Apr 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,136 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Base64 Encoder and Boost
Visual Basic	A Macro to Flip Between the Source and Header File (and Back Again) [Technical Blog] 4 Dec 2011 Updated: 5 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,880 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 30 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A macro to flip between the source and header file (and back again)
	A Macro to Create a C++ Implementation from a Header Declaration [Technical Blog] 17 Dec 2011 Updated: 19 Dec 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,331 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 48 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. From the header declaration, this macro opens up the .cpp file and creates the skeleton so you can begin to add the implementation. This makes adding functions a breeze, so now there really is no excuse for having horribly unfactored code.
Visual C++ 10.0	No RAII to copy [Technical Blog] 20 Jun 2010 Updated: 20 Jun 2010 Rating: 3.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,040 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A hidden danger of wrapping using RAII rears its head when we start copying the object around. Let's look at why and what we can do.
	Getting in the RAII [Technical Blog] 17 Jun 2010 Updated: 17 Jun 2010 Rating: 3.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,370 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Looking at a simple MIDI handle wrapping class

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Swaping values of two variable without temporary variable [Tip/Trick]

17 Mar 2010 Updated: 17 Mar 2010 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90

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There is also InterlockedExchange (or your operating system's equivalent).long a = 1;long b = 2;b = InterlockedExchange(&a, b);

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