{"id":685,"date":"2014-05-30T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wholetomato.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2022-06-22T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:03:26","slug":"automatically-add-c11-override","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/blog\/automatically-add-c11-override\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically add C++11 override to virtual methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The C++11 standard has been approved and C++14 is around the corner. These\u00a0new standards define a lot of interesting language features, one of them being support for the\u00a0override identifier. You can append “override” to a virtual function declaration and tell the compiler that you want to override a virtual method inherited from a base class. If the virtual method does not exist in the base class, or has a different signature, the compiler raises an error and the compilation fails.<\/p>\n

\"blogOverrideExample\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Use of override\u00a0is very useful for detecting errors, at compile time, caused by typos and bad\u00a0copy-pastes.<\/p>\n

Visual Studio has supported override since Visual Studio 2010, and so has Visual Assist. But if you want Visual Assist to insert “override” automatically\u2014when using the code generation feature Implement Virtual Methods<\/a>\u2014you need to tell it via the Windows Registry.<\/p>\n

Note: Beginning with Visual Assist build 2042, you can insert “override” automatically via the options dialog of\u00a0Visual Assist. The following instructions apply to build 2036 and older.<\/em><\/p>\n

Exit your IDE(s) so Visual Assist does not overwrite your changes, then using the registry editor, navigate to this key:<\/p>\n

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Whole Tomato\\Visual Assist X\\<IDE_SPEC><\/a><\/p>\n

Change the value of\u00a0UseOverrideKeywordInImplementInterface from 00 to 01.<\/p>\n

\"blogOverrideRegistry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Restart you IDE, and from now on,\u00a0Visual Assist will append override to\u00a0the signatures of your\u00a0virtual methods.<\/p>\n

This article was contributed by\u00a0Manuel Maier,\u00a0student at\u00a0Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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