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Untangling a Legacy MFC Codebase: One Engineer's Refactor

Untangling a Legacy MFC Codebase: One Engineer’s Refactor How Roger Swann took a sensor-testing system from unmaintainable spaghetti to a stable, object-oriented codebase, without rewriting it from scratch. When C++ developer Roger Swann took over the development of a sensor-testing software, the engineer who wrote it was no longer available to explain any of it—a situation that has been…
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The Best Kept Secrets About C++ Extensions

While you are writing software, it is very important to focus on the logic of the code, its efficiency and performance, and the algorithms used. At the same time, the code should be understandable, readable, and easily editable. There are special tools that allow you to automatically generate code, and simplify the process of editing and refactoring it. One such tool is the Visual Assist…
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