The DEMISE of Visual Basic 6.0

Microsoft MVPs move to save Visual Basic
http://www.zdnet.com/news/microsoft-mvps-move-to-save-visual-basic/141731

Microsoft walks VB tight rope
http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-walks-VB-tight-rope/2100-1007_3-5620821.html

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Imote2 with Camera setup IMB400 over Ubuntu 9.10/10.04

Imote2 Camera driver for TinyOS is available in contribution directory of  TinyOS 2.x . It goes by the name of  tinyos-2.x-contrib . Its location within is  tinyos-2.x-contrib/intelmote2/apps I am assuming that you have tinyos-2.1.1 installed, this is required to have Camera Driver build. If you dont have it installed... than better have it done by invoking: apt-get install tinyos-2.1.1 From here on to get the driver working,  the procedure is as follows: Browse to opt directory. cd /opt The recommended way to get the source of tinyos-2.x and tinyos-2.x-contribis is through CVS. echo "Getting TinyOS 2.x and TinyOS 2.x-contrib from CVS" echo "Press enter when asked for password." cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tinyos login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tinyos co -P tinyos-2.x cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tinyos co -P tinyos-2.x-contrib --OR--  e...
Read more

Using pthread in a C++ class, having thread function a member function

Recently we faced an issue of calling a pthread from within the class. Normally in C programming when using pthread, the pthread_create method takes the second argument as the thread entry function, i.e. the function which will run forever in the thread unless stopped. The address of the function is passed, but since the function name itself is the address of the function, hence just the name is specified. e.g. pthread_create(&m_threads, NULL, threadFunction, NULL); To achieve the similar thing in C++ having the thread function as a member function, the problem is faced with the address of the method. C++ assumes that the thread function should be static and able to run independently. So a static function within the class is expected. Since static function cannot invoke members which are non static, therefore we need the following solution. pthread_create(&m_thread, 0, &CClass::threadFunction, this);                 ...
Read more

How to Run Praat from Visual C++

Following are the steps for using Praat with Visual C++: Download Praat from http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/praat4216_winsit.exe Download SendPraat from http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/sendpraat.exe Extract both Praat and Sendpraat in to location e.g. D:\praat It should look some thing like this: D:\praat\praat.exe D:\praat\sendpraat.exe Now Right click My Computer icon and click Properties or Press Windows+Break Button together. A “ System Properties ” Dialog will appear. Select Tab “ Advanced ”. At the bottom there is button “ Environment Variables ”, click it. A window appears with two frames. In the “ System variables ” frame double click the Variable namely “ Path ”. In the “ Variable value ” textbox append “ ;D:\praat\ ” (don’t forget to use ; to separate from previous path). Restart your computer After doing this open “ Command Prompt ” by typing “cmd” ...
Read more