The Visual C++ Refactoring extension is able to rename a member project-wide. Its built by MS but obviously they used the internal Code DOM to achieve this. So it is possible, I just don’t know how, yet. The CppLister extension is able to read the intellisense databases created by VS to list the various members … Read more
On a class that implements security features, so that the original object cannot be “impersonated”. More generally, I recently exchanged with a person at Microsoft, who told me they tried to limit the inheritance to the places where it really made full sense, because it becomes expensive performance-wise if left untreated. The sealed keyword tells … Read more
This shows up when you press F1 in the Framework and References dialog: By default for new projects, the targeted framework is set to .NET Framework 4. The IDE does not support modifying the targeted framework, but you can change it manually. In the project file (.vcxproj), the default targeted framework is represented by the … Read more
This is C++/CLI and the caret is the managed equivalent of a * (pointer) which in C++/CLI terminology is called a ‘handle’ to a ‘reference type’ (since you can still have unmanaged pointers). (Thanks to Aardvark for pointing out the better terminology.)