Programing Fun

Hi. That computer technology evolves day by day and the amount of information in this area is gigantic many of you already know (so do I), but today I was talking to a friend of mine and I realized how many books I want to ready (only in the subject Windows + .Net). If you are curious you can see the list here but most of them were not published yet (and here you can find a list of some books I've already read / I'm reading). What do you think about them? Is there any other book related to .Net / Windows development you consider a must? PS: Feel free to give some of them as a gift when they get published :) Adriano

Hi, Just to let you know I've posted about Transparent Activation / Persistence to db4o blogs ;) Adriano

C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team Have fun Adriano

As I said in this post, today I've found an interesting site about C++ programing practices. While reading this pages I learned another way to write a fragile application (as always, writing bad code is enough :) So, let's go for it! What will be the output of the following program?

void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  int n = 255;
  size_t size = sizeof(++n);
  printf("%d", n);
}

Hi. Today I reached this page (on cert.org) site talking about C++ secure standard practices. I haven't read it to the end yet but at a first glance it looks pretty interesting (and useful) to me. Wait, don't call yet!! There's a page regarding safe practices for C also! I'll be reading this as soon as I get some time to ;) Adriano

I was reading some blogs this week and find an interesting story related to references in C++ (and as it has some time that I don't work/post about C++) so I decided to post about it. Take a look in the code and try to answer the following questions below:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"

class SimpleClass
{
public:
SimpleClass(int n)
{
   value = n;
}

void FirstMethod(TCHAR* str)
{
  wprintf(str);
}

void SecondMethod()
{
  wprintf(L"Value: %d", value);
}

private:
int value;
};

void Test(SimpleClass &ref, int i)
{
switch(i)
{
  case 1:
     ref.FirstMethod(L"Hello world\r\n");
     break;

  case 2:
     ref.SecondMethod();
     break;
}
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
SimpleClass *p = 0;

Test(*p, 1);
Test(*p, 2);

return 0;
}

• Will it compile? run?
• What would be the outcome from Test being called in line 39?
• What about line 40?
• Is there any other issues?