Miscellaneous

A tutorial to help C++ programmers who are new to DirectX get acquainted with the libraries, in particular DirectDraw and DirectInput.

This tutorial will teach you how to create some graphics over C++ and Pascal. It requires some programming knowledge.

The new C++ standard is full of powerful additions to the language: templates, run-time type identification (RTTI), namespaces, and exceptions to name a few. This tutorial discusses one of the minor extensions: the new C++ casting operators.

This is a comprehensive tutorial to guide newcomers to game programming and Allegro through the process of writing a simple game. Allegro is a game programming library.

This article describes how to count the number of instances of a process that are currently running on the system. It is written in C++ for Windows, but could be ported to other systems and languages easily. (Linux, Visual Basic/VB, C, Unix, MacOS) The system just needs to support interprocess semaphores. The idea can be extended to count any resource, such as a thread, file, data structure, or network object....
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his one's basically shows that MACROS when used in different compilers can give different results. This one teaches you to analyse C++ code and read it in Assembly and draw Conclusions about the results. Really interesting if you read it completely...

This snippet focuses on the uses of the STL deque class in a recursive algorithm, namely to solve a maze.

There is a function gethostbyname for getting the ip address using Winsock. This function will retrieve the ip address details into a variable of type "structure hostent". Read for more info at <a href=http://www.codersource.net/win32_socket_ip_address.html>IP Address Retrieval</a> ...
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Tutorial and sample codes to calculate the distance between two locations. Free sample source codes in PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, C/C++, C#, Java, Perl, Visual Basic and Javascript. Longitude and latitude for United States ZIP Code and Canadian Postal Code are available in database subscription....
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C# 2.0 introduces several language extensions, the most important of which are Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Types. The language extensions in C# 2.0 were designed to ensure maximum compatibility with existing code. For example, even though C# 2.0 gives special meaning to the words where, yield, and partial in certain contexts, these words can still be used as identifiers. Indeed, C# 2.0 adds no new keywords as such keywords could conflict with identifiers in existing code....
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