This is how to create a .lib file to link against a DLL, nice post: http://adrianhenke.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/create-lib-file-from-dll/

Some warnings are so severe that they should be treated as errors at compilation, others are not. There’s the option to treat all warnings as errors in the Visual Studio IDE or at the command line...

Unter den Windows Versionen ab 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 und vermutlich auch Windows 8 haben Benutzer ohne Adminrechte (Hauptbenutzer oder normale Benutzer) keine Berechtigung zum Brennen von Wech...

Unter Windows 2000, XP, Vista und Windows 7 muss der aktuell angemeldete lokale Benutzer abgemeldet werden, wenn eine Benutzersession per Remotedesktopverbindung aufgebaut werden soll. Dieses Limi...

This is a non-complete list about software not everyone might know about and which has proven to be essential for me. I will add more by editing this post whenever I feel like it. Developer tools w...

This has been taken from a FAQ at http://wiki.wxwidgets.org When you compile & link a program, the Eclipse run feature will try to recognize the executable, using one of several parsers. If th...

If you want to convert an int or float/double value into a string representation without using snprintf or itoa, here’s the C++ way: #include <sstream> template <typename T> inline st...

[to be fleshed out] When merging by hand, the recommendation is to always specify the range of revisions you want to merge from your branch to the trunk. First, look up the revision in which the b...

I had my Windows XP laptop connected to my home “workgroup” network with wlan and ethernet network adapter at the the same time. Normally one would guess, just as this Microsoft KB article suggests...

In one project, we have a selection of files I want to update from another directory tree containing much more stuff. Here’s how I get the selection of files I want to copy: find . -type f | egrep...