Giovanni Dicanio's Blog

This is an interesting question, with not an easy answer.

I was “discussing” with Claude about using #define guards vs.

Recently I asked Claude to review the code of my WinReg C++ library (which is a C++ high-level wrapper around the low-level C-interface Windows Registry API).

An interesting question you may ask in C++ is: “How would you declare a function that takes a blob of memory as input?”

I started learning Windows Win32 API programming in C and C++ on Windows 95 (I believe it was Windows 95 OSR 2, in about late 1996 or early 1997, with Visual C++ 4).

I have suggested several articles to the IsoCpp.org Web site.

When working with ASCII strings, finding the next character is really easy: if p is a const char* pointer pointing to the current char, you can simply advance it to point to the next ASCII character with a simple p++.

Unicode UTF-16 is the “native” Unicode encoding used in Windows.

Suppose that you have a Windows system error code, like those returned by GetLastError, and you want to get a descriptive error message associated with it.

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