Best C++ Article of April 2016

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Each month at CodeProject we gather together the best of the articles submitted the previous month and ask our readers to choose the best of the best. Entry is automatic - just submit you articke and we'll do the rest.

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Current Entries

Articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered. The top 50 entries are shown.

A Note on How Functions are Called

28 Jun 2023Dr. Song Li

This is a note on how compilers implement function calls to pass the parameters to and get the return value from the called functions.

ASM

Ubuntu

Linux

Architect

64-bit

A Custom STL std::allocator Replacement Improves Performance

21 Jan 2024David Lafreniere

Protect against heap fragmentation faults and improve execution speed with a fixed block alternative to STL std::allocator

C++

Architect

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 2 - Connecting to the Real World via Sensors

18 Apr 2016Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This second part of a series of tutorials shows how to read analog and digital sensors with the help of Arduino.

C++

Dev

IoT

Execution Extension Method

19 Apr 2016Clifford Nelson

A set of extension methods to support conditional Expression Bodied Functions and Properties

WinDrawLib

11 Apr 2016Martin Mitáš

Direct2D or GDI+? Perhaps both, with a help of the right library.

Win32 Thread Wrapper with Synchronized Start

23 Oct 2019David Lafreniere

A Win32 CreateThread() C++ wrapper class for synchronized thread startup and forced message queue creation.

An Introduction to XCB Programming

5 Apr 2016Matt Scarpino

Developing Low-Level Linux Applications with XCB (X protocol C-language Binding)

C++: Custom RTTI

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

This tip presents a custom RTTI class which is 10x faster than dynamic_cast

C++

VS2010

Detect SAM File Corruption under Windows 7 (Part 1)

10 Apr 2016AIT SALEM BOUSSAD

This first part of the article presents how to inject a DLL inside lsass process by using Windows service

Convert EBNF to BNF Using parsertl & lexertl

1 Apr 2016Ben Hanson

Convert EBNF to BNF

C++

BNF

Native Win32 API OpenGL Tutorial - Part 2

17 Apr 2016leon de boer

In this second part, we will create an OpenGL MDI application

Fast Graph Traversal

8 Apr 2016jurhas

Solving graph on linear time

graph

Domain Driven Design: A "hands on" Example (Part 3 of 3)

20 Apr 2016Suarte

A hands on example of domain driven design - Part 3

C++

Windows

WTL

Getting Transducers Over LAN

13 Apr 2016Member 11246861

Within LAN, laptop gets signals from microcomputer and microcontroller using TCP/IP and SPI

How to Call CoEEShutDownCom in .NET Framework 4.0 and Use It to Solve Hang Issue When Connection Point Being Used Between .NET and Native COM Object

23 Apr 2016Simon M Li

Force .NET Framework release RCW objects when necessary

How-To Intel® IoT Technology Code Samples: Robot arm in C++

18 Apr 2016Intel

This robot arm application is part of a series of how-to Intel® IoT Technology code sample exercises using the Intel® IoT Developer Kit, Intel® Edison board, cloud platforms, APIs, and other technologies.

Outline Text

13 Aug 2018Shao Voon Wong

How to draw a text with an outline

SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Using SSE2 to speed up alphablending.

Anti-Debug Protection Techniques: Implementation and Neutralization

7 Apr 2016Apriorit Inc, Kulchytskyi Oleg

Several approaches of anti-debug protection and some tips about how they are usually neutralized by reversers

C++

Windows

debugging

Bigger Directories

15 Dec 2017Laurie Stearn

Dialogex with Listbox to manipulate long paths in Windows

DIY electronic RFID Door Lock with Battery Backup

7 May 2018Elmue

An electronic door lock that replaces a mechanic key by an RFID card or RFID token.

How to Set Debugger to Auto Attach on Process Start

14 Apr 2016Eyal Rosner

Easily setting debugger to attach a process on start

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging

25 Jan 2019David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework

How to Use a Font Without Installing it

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

How to use a font without installing it first on user systems

Image Binarization Using 10 Program Languages

3 May 2016Lai Taiyu

A simple image binarization

Outline Text - Part 2

13 Aug 2018Shao Voon Wong

Outline Text Part 2

Boost Multiprecision Library

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Introduction to Boost Multiprecision Library

C++

VS2008

STL Sort Comparison Function

1 Oct 2016Shao Voon Wong

Writing comparison function for std::sort

Visual C++ 11 Beta Benchmark of Parallel Loops

25 Apr 2020Shao Voon Wong

Benchmark between OpenMP, Parallel Patterns Library, Auto-Parallelizer and C++17 Parallel for_each

C++: Simplistic Binary Streams

12 Aug 2018Shao Voon Wong

Simplistic Binary Streams with endian swap support

C++

Outline Text With DirectWrite

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Draw text outline using DirectWrite

Preserving Overheat Multithreading

17 Apr 2016Adamanteus

Preserving overheating processor in multitasking environment

Combinations in C++, Part 2

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Introduce 4 new algorithms on finding combinations

Debug Print in Variadic Template Style

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Debug Print using C++11 Variadic Template

WoT with Arduino for Beginners: Part 1 - Mastering the RGB LED

22 Apr 2016Mircea Diaconescu, Gerd Wagner

Learn how to develop Arduino-based apps for the Web of Things (WoT). This first part of a series of tutorials shows the basics of an Arduino program (known as a "sketch") and provides a quick introduction to some electronic components, including resistors, RGB LEDs and LEDs in general.

C++

Dev

IoT

C99 and C++11: Use isnan to test for NaN

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Never test for NaN by comparing it with NaN literal

C++

C++: Minimalistic CSV Streams

10 Mar 2023Shao Voon Wong

Read/write CSV in few lines of code!

Linq-To-XML Style of Node Creation for C++

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Linq-To-XML Node Creation for Native C++

C++: New Text Streams

3 Jan 2018Shao Voon Wong

A C++ Text Stream design which has read/write symmetry

C++

Visual-Studio

MS Elmax: MSXML C++ DOM Parser Wrapper

27 Jun 2022Shao Voon Wong

The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model.

XML

C++

.NET

The Ring Programming Language

6 Sep 2016Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Free Open Source Innovative and practical general-purpose multi-paradigm Scripting language developed using C/C++

C++14 Lambdas: You've Got In-place Anonymous Functions

1 May 2016itsdkg

A demonstration of how to use C++11/C++14 lambdas / Closures

C++11

C++14

C++

Implementing Dynamic Resources with Direct3D12

23 Nov 2017EgorYusov

This article describes how to implement dynamic resources with Direct3D12 API using ring buffers.

C++

Windows

DirectX

How To Safely Pass Parameters By Reference in C++ - The Unsettled Question

19 May 2016Noah L

Use-after-free bugs, new smart pointers and the new state of safe C++ programming

Java

C++11

C++

Pointer to Pointer and Reference to Pointer

11 Jan 2018Shao Voon Wong

Explains the reason behind using pointer-to-pointer and reference-to-pointer to modify a pointer passed to a function

Portable Elmax: C++ XML DOM Parser

27 Jun 2022Shao Voon Wong

Tutorial on a cross-platform C++ XML DOM library

Permutations with CUDA and OpenCL

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Finding lexicographical permutations on GPU

Combinations in C++

5 Jun 2018Shao Voon Wong

An article on finding combinations

Hash-container and Red-Black Tree Face-off (STL Benchmark)

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

Benchmark of hash and non-hash container

SequelMax: C++ XML SAX Parser

12 Apr 2016Shao Voon Wong

A new C++ SAX library to simplify parsing

Current Participants

Those with articles that match the contest criteria are automatically entered.

Adamanteus

Software Developer LLC "AMS"

Russian Federation

In 1991 year has received senior secondary education and entered in Moscow Economic-statistical Institute, by faculty of Supply mathematics, has studied to 2-nd course with high progress, and left it by own will.

With 1994-1996 years - serviced in army (navy fleet, now sailor of a stock).

Since 1999 year has begun my labour career, with job of computer operator, in department of computer maintenance developing learn-methodical documentation.

Single, on religion - atheist.

AIT SALEM BOUSSAD

Instructor / Trainer

France

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Apriorit Inc

Chief Technology Officer Apriorit Inc.

United States

ApriorIT is a software research and development company specializing in cybersecurity and data management technology engineering. We work for a broad range of clients from Fortune 500 technology leaders to small innovative startups building unique solutions.

As Apriorit offers integrated research&development services for the software projects in such areas as endpoint security, network security, data security, embedded Systems, and virtualization, we have strong kernel and driver development skills, huge system programming expertise, and are reals fans of research projects.

Our specialty is reverse engineering, we apply it for security testing and security-related projects.

A separate department of Apriorit works on large-scale business SaaS solutions, handling tasks from business analysis, data architecture design, and web development to performance optimization and DevOps.

Official site: https://www.apriorit.com
Clutch profile: https://clutch.co/profile/apriorit

This is a Organisation

33 members

Ben Hanson

Software Developer (Senior)

United Kingdom

I started programming in 1983 using Sinclair BASIC, then moved on to Z80 machine code and assembler. In 1988 I programmed 68000 assembler on the ATARI ST and it was 1990 when I started my degree in Computing Systems where I learnt Pascal, C and C++ as well as various academic programming languages (ML, LISP etc.)

I have been developing commercial software for Windows using C++ since 1994.

Clifford Nelson

Software Developer (Senior) Clifford Nelson Consulting

United States

Has been working as a C# developer on contract for the last several years, including 3 years at Microsoft. Previously worked with Visual Basic and Microsoft Access VBA, and have developed code for Word, Excel and Outlook. Started working with WPF in 2007 when part of the Microsoft WPF team. For the last eight years has been working primarily as a senior WPF/C# and Silverlight/C# developer. Currently working as WPF developer with BioNano Genomics in San Diego, CA redesigning their UI for their camera system. he can be reached at qck1@hotmail.com.

David Lafreniere

United States

I've been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. When not writing code, I enjoy spending time with the family, camping and riding motorcycles around Southern California.

Dr. Song Li

United States

I have been working in the IT industry for some time. It is still exciting and I am still learning. I am a happy and honest person, and I want to be your friend.

EgorYusov

United States

Being a 3D graphics enthusiast for many years, I have worked on various rendering technologies including deformable terrain, physically-based water, shadows, volumetric and post-processing effects and other. I run Diligent Graphics as a place where I can experiment, learn new technologies, try new algorithms and share my ideas.

Elmue

Software Developer (Senior) ElmüSoft

Chile

Software Engineer since 40 years.

Eyal Rosner

Architect - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Unknown

My specialities are at the area of crash dump analysis, memory leaks tracking, network traffic analysis, advanced debugging technics and software security

Intel

United States

You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth.

Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.

This is a Organisation

42 members

itsdkg

Architect

India

A programmer by heart since 1998. Written code in C++, Java, JavaScript, Python & Ruby, Worked on Stack Development to Web Development. Data Specialist with SQL and NoSQL DBs

jurhas

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Lai Taiyu

Instructor / Trainer GJun Information Co.,Ltd.

Taiwan

Dr. Lai Tai-Yu received the Ph.D. from National Taipei University of Technology in 2016. He is the co-author of 2 journal, 25 conference papers, 6 books, 9 articles in the codeproject.com, and 2 patents inventions. His research interests lie in the areas of digital image processing and AI. He is a lecturer.　　

Dr Taiyu Lai. Stopień doktora, uzyskał w 2016 roku i objął stanowisko adiunkta na Wydziale. Ponadto jest autorem i współautorem: 2 publikacji artykułu w czasopiśmie naukowym, 25 artykułów opublikowanych w materiałach konferencyjnych, 6 książek, 9 eseje w monografiach codeproject.com, i posiada dwa patenty. Zainteresowania naukowe: przetwarzania obrazów i AI. Jest wykładowcą.　　

赖岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大学资讯工程博士学位，有2篇期刊、25篇会议论文、6本书籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2项专利。研究方向：数字图像处理和AI。现职是一位讲师。

賴岱佑在2016年取得台北科技大學資訊工程博士學位，有2篇期刊、25篇會議論文、6本書籍、9篇文章在 codeproject.com 、2項專利。研究方向：數位影像處理和AI。現職是一位講師。

Laurie Stearn

Retired

Australia

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

leon de boer

Software Developer

Australia

Experience hardware/software design engineer with specialization in the field of embedded controllers and software. Software credits include Free Pascal development RTL, Cipher Multitask engraving software and Symmetry Laser/Cutting software. Firmware/hardware credits include Cipher CNC controllers series 1-3, Vision series 1 engraver controller and I-Marc pet tagger controller.

It is about now you realize you have been doing this for far too long Smile | :)

contact: ldeboer@gateway.net.au

Mahmoud Samir Fayed

Egypt

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Martin Mitáš

Team Leader

Czech Republic

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Matt Scarpino

United States

I've been a programmer, engineer, and author for over 20 years.

Member 11246861

Italy

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Mircea Diaconescu

Technical Lead

Germany

Researcher, developer, WoT/IoT enthusiast
Co-founder of http://web-engineering.info.

Noah L

United States

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Shao Voon Wong

Software Developer (Senior)

Singapore

Shao Voon is from Singapore. His interest lies primarily in computer graphics, software optimization, concurrency, security, and Agile methodologies.

In recent years, he shifted focus to software safety research. His hobby is writing a free C++ DirectX photo slideshow application which can be viewed here.

Simon M Li

China

I am C++ developer with 14 years experience. I am good at native programming and debugging. I am studying .net now.

Suarte

Technical Lead PSafe Technology

Brazil

A software development lover with more than 10 years of experience on programming, the IT field and computer science as well.

First Prize	Apriorit Inc, Kulchytskyi Oleg - Anti-Debug Protection Techniques: Implementation and Neutralization
Prize pool	CodeProject T-Shirt - CodeProject


Second Prize	David Lafreniere - Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging
Prize pool	Bob Sticker - CodeProject

Contest Entries and Requirements

The contest period covers the the first day of the month 12AM US Eastern Standard Time and ends the final day of the month at 11:59:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify.
Entries must be an article, or blog entry.
With the exception of the Everything Else category, the article must be tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category (for example, to enter the C# Competition you would need to tag your article with a C# tag).
Articles entries must follow the CodeProject submission guidelines.
No cheating, lying, plagiarizing articles, chicanery, or kicking.
Articles may only be considered for a single category. If an article is eligible for multiple categories (for example, it pertains to both the C# and Web Dev categories), CodeProject editors and judges will decide which category the article shall be entered in.
No author can be nominated twice in the same category.
If an author writes has two separate articles, each article may be considered in their respective categories provided none of the aforementioned rules are broken. For example, if an author wrote two separate articles, one related to C# and one related to VB.NET, the author and articles could be nominated in the C# and VB.NET competitions, respectively.
In the event an author wins multiple competitions, and repeat, identical prizes, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event an article has multiple authors and/or contributors, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
In the event of a tie, the number of prizes issued is solely at the discretion of the prize issuer.
Multiple votes from the same IP will be automatically disqualified.
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
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Any breach of the rules and the prize will be awarded to the runner up.
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Entry is by the submission process described above. Please read the submission requirements before submitting your entry and ensure the article is tagged with at least one of the tags corresponding to that competition's category.

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