Fixing memory leak in Microsoft USD

Microsoft USD is a pretty cool framework, but sometimes when some requirements are complex due to technical constraints this can suddenly change. I’ve been working on this project for one of my customers, helping them deliver an integrated desktop built with Microsoft USD. I had delivered similar solutions in the past when the product was […]

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Retrieving IHTMLDocument & IWebBrowser2 objects from hWnd

Hi Community, For the past year, I’ve been pretty busy assisting one of my customers to deliver an integrated desktop solution built with Microsoft USD as part of a major transformation program that encompasses Dynamics CRM 365, Microsoft Azure, Apttus (CPQ), ERPly, Guidewire products and banking software. During this time we’ve faced some technical challenges, […]

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Reading XML Config files with C++ and TinyXML in Linux

I’m currently working on a C++ FOSS project that requires to read configuration settings from file. In .NET this is pretty straightforward to do via ConfigurationManager class, so I had to write my own using TinyXML Source code as shown below: Config.xml Setting.h ConfigReader.h ConfigReader.cpp The elements in XML file are treated as models that […]

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Visual SOS – Visual Studio extension to debug managed applications through SOS

Visual SOS is both an executable and extension for Visual Studio that leverages the debugger engine available in Windows in conjunction with SOS debugging extension. It’s similar to having Windbg embedded into Visual Studio but in a much simpler way, because it exposes some of the most commonly used commands just a click away. Visual […]

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My github repos

Hi Community, Please find here https://github.com/angelhernandezm some repos with my contributions made towards developer community. I still have to upload a few other ones scattered around though. Regards, Angel

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Implementing LINQ’s Enumerable methods in C++ with GCC and CLion for Linux

Hi Community, Today’s post is about my personal implementation of some Enumerable methods available in .NET but written in C++.  My implementation is pretty generic, because it uses a template class that returns a std::vector<T> as if it were IEnumerable<T>. C++ has always provided templates to allow developers write generic code; even when they might […]

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Building native *nix solutions with C++, GTK+ and SQL Server vNext

Hi Community, This is the fourth and final post of this series on GTK+ and Linux development with C++ and SQL Server vNext. The purpose of this post is to walk you through a demo application I’ve written using a few different technologies, tools and patterns as listed below: C++ CLion Glade SQL Sever vNext MVC […]

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Exposing functionality in C++ parent class to children classes through proxies

Hi Community, Today’s post is about a common scenario we might face when building software. Sometimes, we have a parent class which contains a child member or property that requires to trigger or execute code that exist in the parent. It is a common practice to pass a reference to the container or parent, even […]

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Displaying tabular data in a GtkTreeView

Hi Community, As a follow up to Yesterday’s post on Linux development with C++, GTK+ and SQL Server vNext. Today’s post is about GtkTreeView and how we can use it to display tabular data, as we’re used to do with a DataGrid in .NET, but first it’s worthy to start with an introduction to GTK+. […]

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