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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Replicating C#’s using statement functionality in C++

Hi Community, Today’s post is about a project I’ve recently started working on, it’s a C++ application for Linux built with GTK+ and SQL Server vNext for Linux. I’m also using CLion which is my favorite cross-platform IDE when doing plain C++  and Glade as my UI editor. I chose not to use Qt, because I’d […]

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Instrumenting *nix Systems via C#, C++, Mono and Qt

Hi Community, The following article is about one of the subjects I’m most passionate about that’s integration of disparate systems and cross-platform computing. I think, it’s something I had to publish and it’s one of the core components of my SIF project (Service Integration Framework). This approach can be applied to a variety of scenarios, […]

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Integration between Qt application running on Linux and Microsoft SQL Server

I love computers, technology and software that’s for sure. I fell in love with them at a very early age and I still got the passion To me, when I’m able to make one system talk or communicate and interact with another it’s always fun and challenging, but more importantly it’s rewarding as. I have […]

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