The meaning of #ifdef is that the code inside the block will be included in the compilation only if the mentioned preprocessor macro is defined. Similarily #if means that the block will be included only if the expression evaluates to true (when replacing undefined macros that appears in the expression with 0). One important point here is that the … Read more
Make sure that your config file (web.config if web, or app.config if windows) in your project starts as: Note that inside the configuration element, the first child must be the configSections element. In the name property on section element, make sure you replace YourProjectName with your actual project’s name. It happened to me that I created a webservice in a class library project, then I … Read more
I have a C++ windows application that was done by another programmer, that I had to remove one line of code. After rebuilding the application with visual studio 2013 it crashes with this in the event log: The application uses QT 4.7.4, and compiles with no errors. I am an embedded systems programmer and have … Read more
All C++ compilers have one serious performance problem to deal with. Compiling C++ code is a long, slow process. Compiling headers included on top of C++ files is a very long, slow process. Compiling the huge header structures that form part of Windows API and other large API libraries is a very, very long, slow process. To have to do … Read more
I know one should not use global variables but I have a need for them. I have read that any variable declared outside a function is a global variable. I have done so, but in another *.cpp file, that variable could not be found. So it was not really global. Isn’t it so that one has to … Read more
There are 2 major differences. Technical Licensing Technical, there are 3 major differences: First and foremost, Community doesn’t have TFS support.You’ll just have to use git (arguable whether this constitutes a disadvantage or whether this actually is a good thing).Note: This is what MS wrote. Actually, you can check-in&out with TFS as normal, if you have … Read more
There are four things I can think of which need to happen so that OnTriggerEnter gets called: The two objects’ colliders need to actually be overlapping. Just because their rendered pixels are overlapping, doesn’t mean their colliders are overlapping. This can be checked in the editor. Their colliders are indicated with a green outline in the Scene tab. If … Read more
To format a selection: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F To format a document: Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D See the pre-defined keyboard shortcuts. (These two are Edit.FormatSelection and Edit.FormatDocument.) Note for macOS On macOS, use the CMD ⌘ key instead of Ctrl: To format a selection: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+F To format a document: CMD ⌘+K, CMD ⌘+D
Visual Studio (full version) is a “full-featured” and “convenient” development environment. Visual Studio (free “Express” versions – only until 2017) are feature-centered and simplified versions of the full version. Feature-centered meaning that there are different versions (Visual Studio Web Developer, Visual Studio C#, etc.) depending on your goal. Visual Studio (free Community edition – since 2015) is a … Read more
Try go to Tools->Options->Debugging->Symbols and select checkbox “Microsoft Symbol Servers”, Visual Studio will download PDBs automatically. PDB is a debug information file used by Visual Studio. These are system DLLs, which you don’t have debug symbols for.[…] See Cannot find or open the PDB file in Visual Studio C++ 2010