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| My First Visual C++ 2008 Application |
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| May 29, 2010 |
Some of my recent blogs had cool titles like The Silence of the Lambs and Seven Fat Years and Seven Lean Years. This title would also be cool if it read like like "My First iPhone Application" or "My First Android Application".
I started with Turbo C for PC applications in 1992. Before 1996 I was using Borland C++, but finally surrendered to Visual C ++ 4.2 in 1997. In 1999 I upgraded to VC6 with Microsoft and stayed with the version for 10 years.
After I changed to use my Sony VGN-FW235J in early 2009, finally I had to face the problem that VC6 is not supported in Windows Vista any more. I had to install this VC9(Visual C++ 2008) instead, but used mostly as a text editor for a year.
When I was moving Palmmicro web from palmmicro.com.cn to palmmicro.com earlier this year, I began to write this first application called "Woody's Web Tool", it was designed to do those repeated copy, paste and FTP upload works automatically. As my web work finished recently, my application completed too.
During my development, I was also considering if I should upgrade to Visual C++ 2010. However I met a developer from a professional software company last month and knew that they are still working with VC9, so I feel comfortable to stay with this version now.
Comparing with VC6, those impressed me with VC9:
1. Although I installed help documents on my local hardware drive, I find it is always fast to get help information online
2. When reusing old VC6 source codes, I had to add _T() to all strings because of strictly unicode check
3. New CHtmlView class makes it so easy to view web files in application
4. New CFtpConnection class also makes it very easy to upload files to FTP servers
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I still remember going to Hans Bethe and saying, "Hey, Hans! I noticed something interesting. Here the plate goes around so, and the reason it's two to one is . . ." and I showed him the accelerations.
He says, "Feynman, that's pretty interesting, but what's the importance of it? Why are you doing it?"
"Hah!" I say. "There's no importance whatsoever. I'm just doing it for the fun of it." His reaction didn't discourage me; I had made up my mind I was going to enjoy physics and do whatever I liked.
From page 67, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, as told to Ralph Leighton |
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You can download the software here, it is compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VC9) and Windows SDK v7.1, you might need to download and install related VC9 redistributable package from Microsoft first.
Download source files.
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