Visual Studio is great for C++ development. In this article, I'll show you some of the great features it offers to make C++ development easier, faster, and...

There are far more things in the C++ Standard Library than we have time to cover. We will limit ourselves to looking at some of the most commonly used...

In this article, I'm going to assume that you have experience with lambdas from C#, so what we will do here is cover the syntax that C++ has adopted.

Template functions and classes serve a similar purpose in C++ as generics serve in C#. They allow you to reuse your code without writing a function or class...

We’ve already covered the RAII idiom earlier in this series. Some language usages and programming idioms in C++ might seem foreign or pointless at first...

Strings are one of those troublesome things in C and C++. In the early days of the languages, strings were all character arrays. Then came a mess of...

There are five different ways of casting variables. There is overlap between them, especially with the C-style cast and all other casts, but each has its...

Even though the concept of a pointer is simple, many people struggle with this topic. A pointer is nothing more than a variable that holds a memory address....

This article is all about RAII or Resource Acquisition Is Initialization, a design pattern using C++ code to eliminate resource leaks.

In this article, we discuss constructors, destructors, and operators in C++. Constructors are a bit more complex in C++ than they are in C#, but, after...

Storage duration is the property of an object that defines the minimum potential lifetime of the storage containing the object. That's the topic of this...

In this article, we discuss functions and classes in C++. You'll learn the difference between declaration and definition and we'll take a look at...