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2026

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Why We Should Double-Check the AI Output: A Bug Which Wasn’toriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
How to Declare a C++ Function that Takes a Blob of Memory?original ↗
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2025

The char-TCHAR-wchar_t Pendulum in Windows API Native C/C++ Programmingoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2025
The IsoCpp.org Process for Suggesting Articles Is Broken and Should Be Fixedoriginal ↗
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Finding the Next Unicode Code Point in Strings: UTF-8 vs. UTF-16original ↗
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Getting a Descriptive Error Message for a Windows System Error Codeoriginal ↗
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2024

How To Pass a Custom Struct from C# to a C++ Native DLL?original ↗
6 Dec 2024
How To Fix an Unhandled System.DllNotFoundException in Mixed C++/C# Projectsoriginal ↗
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How to Safely Pass a C++ String View as Input to a C-interface APIoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2024
Passing C++ STL Strings vs. String Views as Input Parameters at the Windows C API Boundaryoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2024
How To Convert Unicode Strings to Lower Case and Upper Case in C++original ↗
9 Oct 2024
C++ WinReg Library Updated with Contains Methodsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2024
Three Pieces of Advice on Using Modern C++ at Win32 API Boundariesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2024
How to Enumerate the Modules Loaded in a Processoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
Comparing STL vs. ATL/MFC String Usage at the Windows API Boundariesoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2024
How to Use ATL/MFC CString at the Windows API Boundariesoriginal ↗
29 May 2024
Comparing Different Methods for Accessing Raw Character Buffers in Strings vs. String Viewsoriginal ↗
15 May 2024
Axialis Fluent System 2023 Icons Discountoriginal ↗
15 May 2024
Why Don’t You Use String Views (as std::wstring_view) Instead of Passing std::wstring by const&?original ↗
14 May 2024
Happy Anniversary: One Year of Bloggingoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2024
Embedding (and Extracting) Binary Files like DLLs into an EXE as Resourcesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
Unicode Conversions with String Views as Input Parametersoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024
Simplifying Windows Registry Programming with the C++ WinReg Libraryoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024
Decoding Windows SDK Types: PSTR and PCSTRoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
How Can You Pass STL Strings as PWSTR Parameters at the Windows API Boundaries?original ↗
27 Feb 2024
How Can You Pass STL Strings as PCWSTR Parameters at the Windows API Boundaries?original ↗
26 Feb 2024
Decoding Windows SDK Types: PWSTRoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024
Decoding Windows SDK Types: PCWSTRoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2024
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25 Jan 2024
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23 Jan 2024
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23 Jan 2024
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How to Load std::wstring from Resourcesoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2023
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16 Nov 2023
Protecting Your C++ Code Against Integer Overflow Made Easy by SafeIntoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2023
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9 Nov 2023
Protecting Your C++ Code Against Unsigned Integer “Overflow”original ↗
8 Nov 2023
Beware of Integer Overflows in Your C++ Codeoriginal ↗
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3 Nov 2023
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28 Oct 2023
How to Convert from Japanese EUC (EUC-JP) to Unicode?original ↗
25 Oct 2023
How to Convert Between ATL/MFC’s CString and std::wstringoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2023
Google C++ Style Guide on Unsigned Integersoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2023
Converting Between Unicode UTF-16 CString and UTF-8 std::stringoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
Beware of Unsafe Conversions from size_t to intoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2023
How Do I Convert Between Japanese Shift JIS and Unicode UTF-8/UTF-16?original ↗
6 Oct 2023
Converting Between Unicode UTF-16 and UTF-8 Using C++ Standard Library’s Strings and Direct Win32 API Callsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2023
Converting Between Unicode UTF-16 and UTF-8 Using ATL CString and Direct Win32 API Callsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2023
Converting Between Unicode UTF-16 and UTF-8 Using ATL Helpersoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2023
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22 Sept 2023
Are wchar_t and std::wstring Really Portable in C++?original ↗
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19 Jun 2023
Optimizing C++ Code with O(1) Operationsoriginal ↗
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Adventures with C++ string_view: Interop with ATL/MFC CStringoriginal ↗
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How to Print Unicode Text to the Windows Console in C++original ↗
1 Jun 2023
Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms in C++original ↗
24 May 2023
The Windows Kernel-mode UNICODE_STRING Structureoriginal ↗
23 May 2023
Pluralsight 50% Off Sale Extended Until 5/22original ↗
19 May 2023
Properly Passing a C++ Standard String as an Input BSTR String Parameteroriginal ↗
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The Case of the Two Billion Characters Long Stringoriginal ↗
18 May 2023
Platform-specific Strings: An Introduction to BSTR Stringsoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
The Case of string_view and the Magic Stringoriginal ↗
9 May 2023
Keeping on Enumerating C++ String Options: The String Viewsoriginal ↗
3 May 2023
How Many Strings Does C++ Have?original ↗
28 Apr 2023
The C++ Small String Optimizationoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2023
Pluralsight FREE Week!original ↗
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Hello World!original ↗
20 Apr 2023