VC++ 2005: IDE Tips and Tricks | Charles

BenZilla

Really good interview.

You guys should put up some kind of cheat sheet with the most usefull keyboard commands somewhere.

UnoriginalGuy

Wonderful interview. VERY interesting stuff here guys. I really learnt a trick or two.

If a VS VC++ team member drops by this thread, I would like to know if there is any information, good or bad, about support for VC++ being added to the VS Class Designer (as supported for C#, VB.net etc).

trackerball

Good talk. I still though a straight answer wasn't given by the speaker to Charles' question about whether a single member in a class can be managed (whereas everything else in the class is unmanaged). What's the answer? Is it possible or not?

jeffsand
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BenZilla wrote:
Really good interview.

You guys should put up some kind of cheat sheet with the most usefull keyboard commands somewhere.

Sounds like a great use of the C9 Wiki. Wink

jsampsonPC
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BenZilla wrote:
Really good interview.

You guys should put up some kind of cheat sheet with the most usefull keyboard commands somewhere.

ILoveJackDaniels.com is developing a VB.NET cheat-sheet. Their previous sheets are excellent.

Patrick_G

I would also love to see the snippet feauture work for c++.....

jsampsonPC
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...Why does it feel like I'm the only one standing during this interview? Smiley

Maybe the next interview should be eye-level Smiley

Other than that, this is an awesome interview.

mixelz

I always like ctrl-i (incremental search) as well as ctrl+space. One thing I miss in VS2005 is the ability to ctrl+shift+ left arrow and then only select part of the word (like Eclipse does):

justAnExample would only select Example and the next tab on the left key would select AnExample. It's also useful with ctrl+backspace as I hardly ever use the backspace one single time, it's usually quicker to delete the entire word and retype it Smiley

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BorisJ

Trackerball, I was definitely not trying to skirt the issue, it's more that I was not always expecting those questions Smiley The short answer to your question is this:

- a managed class (ref class A {}) can only hold pointers to native types
- a native class (class B {}) can not hold a managed handle directly, instead you should use gcroot<T> as follows:

#include <vcclr.h>
using namespace System;

class B {
public:
   gcroot<String^> str;   // can use str as if it were String^
   B() {}
};

int main() {
   B b;
   b.str = gcnew String("hello");
   Console::WriteLine( b.str );   // no cast required
}

I hope that answers the question. If you want to learn more, I gave a talk about interop at Tech-Ed and I have some posts about it over at http://blogs.msdn.com/borisj.

-- Boris