Archive for April, 2007

Silicon Valley Bird’s eye view

Apr 4th

Posted by andrei

It appears that maps.live.com has bird’s eye imagery for the entire San Francisco Bay Area! Here’s a very detailed view of Googleplex.

XAML overhead …

Apr 3rd

Posted by andrei

WPF is so terribly bloated, check below the top of the stack with the mouse click handler:

… and right above it’s the WndProc handler that receives the click.

_com_ptr_t getting a pointer to the interface pointer

Apr 2nd

Posted by andrei

Somewhat strange,

operator&

C++ accessors

Apr 2nd

Posted by andrei

In case you didn’t know, C++ from Visual Studio 6.0 onwards has accessors similar to the C# ones, using the following constructs:

__declspec( property( get=get_func_name ) ) declarator
__declspec( property( put=put_func_name ) ) declarator
__declspec( property( get=get_func_name, put=put_func_name ) ) declarator

(from msdn)