In my solution, I have a Visual C++ project which uses Platform Toolset = Visual Studio 2013 (v120) which I am opening in Visual Studio 2019. If I edit the Project Properties > Configuration ...

I am designing a "dereferencer" class, for fun. I wrote some structs and aliass : template <class _T> using deref_type = decltype(*std::declval<_T>()); template <class _T, ...

I get generated c-code that might have 64 bit operations and datatypes. I compile it for a 32 bit CPU so the compiler emulates the 64 bit types/operations using a series of 32 bit types/operations. ...

I need to preserve the exact binary representation of some doubles in a text file with other ascii values, so I am using "%a" as suggested in this question. fprintf (pFile, "Scale: %a, %a, %a\n", ...

I am using Multibyte Character Set on my project. The SetMarquee function is not allowed to access while the character set is MultiByte. The below function available in C:\Program Files (x86)\...

This is a 32-bit MFC application currently running on Windows 10. Compiled with Visual C++ 2013. std::cout << "sizeof(long long) = " << sizeof(long long) << std::endl; int rot{ 32 ...

I have been using the CPP Rest SDK for my application which serves as both HTTP_Client and HTTP_Server as well. And now I want to support HTTPS in my application. The HTTP_Client will be running in ...

I've recently noticed that once I start building the Visual Studio solution I'm working with (~200 C++ projects), I get a very large number of cl.exe processes. I'm not surprised by the fact of ...

Using functors with parameters generally looks like that: // Definition: struct some_functor_with_params { int ref; explicit some_functor_with_params(int ref) : ref(ref) {} bool operator (...

Could anyone help me find out what is wrong with in-class initialization of static constexpr member varaible like in the code below ? Using Visual Studio 2013 struct hg { public: static ...

I want to create a text file for first run carrying the password and use the code to check the entire string for the password entered previously. The current code returns true value for the 1st few ...

I had been compiling on my Visual Studio making small changes from the morning and it was running fine. I made a small change and I started getting this error, error MSB6006: "cmd.exe" exited with ...

Brace-or-equal-initializers in an anonymous struct within a struct doesn't do their work on output produced by VS2013. There's the code: #include <iostream> #include <cstdint> struct S { ...

I'm installing Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 as a prerequisite (if its not installed)through my installer. But sometimes already installed VC++ is corrupted then my installer does not work because I'...

Visual Studio has a simple method "File::ReadAllBytes" that will read a file and return a byte array, but I don't know how to use it. I tried the following and they all don't work. Byte arr[] = File::...