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
I just stumbled onto this issue accessing some Python libraries: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with “Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools”. The latest link to that is actually here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 When you begin the installer, it will have several “options” enabled which will balloon the install size to 5gb. If you have … Read more
MS has a series of public replies to this, most of them blaming their users. Like this one: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/iso-c-standard-update/ Now, the Visual C++ compiler team receives the occasionally question as to why we haven’t implemented C99. It’s really based on interest from our users. Where we’ve received many requests for certain C99 features, we’ve tried … Read more
__declspec is a Microsoft-specific attribute that allows you to specify storage-class information. (Nitpicker’s Corner: However, a number of other compiler vendors—e.g. GCC—now support this language extension for compatibility with the installed base of code that was written targeting Microsoft’s compilers. Some even provide additional storage-class attributes.) Two of those storage-class attributes that can be specified … Read more
As said, there is no way to do that. You need to download the entire 4-6GB+ bundle. MS deployment is a botch. There is no need, however, to actually install everything. If you’re up to some manual installation, you can extract individual components from the bundle and put them all in a more organized directory … Read more
Linking to a DLL file can occur implicitly at compile link time, or explicitly at run time. Either way, the DLL ends up loaded into the processes memory space, and all of its exported entry points are available to the application. If used explicitly at run time, you use LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress() to manually load … Read more
Maybe. But you have bigger problems. gettimeofday() can result in incorrect timings if there are processes on your system that change the timer (ie, ntpd). On a “normal” linux, though, I believe the resolution of gettimeofday() is 10us. It can jump forward and backward and time, consequently, based on the processes running on your system. … Read more
Import in VC++: #import is for type libraries or .tlbs (COM stuff). The content of the type library is converted into C++ classes, mostly describing the COM interfaces for you automatically, and then it is included into your file. The #import directive was introduced by Microsoft as an extension to the C++ language. You can … Read more
The task is fairly simple as the base filename is just the part of the string starting at the last delimeter for folders: std::string base_filename = path.substr(path.find_last_of(“/\\”) + 1) If the extension is to be removed as well the only thing to do is find the last . and take a substr to this point … Read more
This type is defined in the C header <stdint.h> which is part of the C++11 standard but not standard in C++03. According to the Wikipedia page on the header, it hasn’t shipped with Visual Studio until VS2010. In the meantime, you could probably fake up your own version of the header by adding typedefs that … Read more