May 152012
 

Clicking File | New | Project in Visual Studio brings up a dialog box from which you can select Win32 under C++. You can also select MFC, or CLR if you want to target the .NET Framework. The latter is tempting and preferable to the former since Microsoft is phasing it in as the new generation.

But let’s stay focussed (which is more than my dialog boxes are). We don’t want a console application, although Continue reading »

May 032012
 

It’s been nearly ten years out of the business while I’ve written novels, an Australian road trip, blogged and travelled. Now it’s time to pay for them so a brush-up of the old programming skills is in order.

One doesn’t forget. Quarter of a century of writing programs means the thought processes are ingrained. Ten years of C++ make Continue reading »