Ale Contenti

SafeInt is a C++ header containing the SafeInt class, non-throwing functions to check common operations, and the associated internal mechanisms. SafeInt is currently used extensively throughout Microsoft, with substantial adoption within Office and Windows. David LeBlanc is a…

Sometimes, things go wrong when code executes. You can't predict when this will happen or even why, but you can write code to handle exceptional problems. If you're lucky, the problem will carry with it a bunch of useful information that you can use, at runtime, to handle the specific error. These…

Ale Contenti is a Senior Development Lead on the VC++ team. He works primarily on Safe Libraries and associated constructs. Here, we learn about what's new in VC SL (checked iterators are certainly cool - and fast too), things to think about in terms of writing "safe"…