Get Current Time in mm/dd/yyyy in C++

I am using the following code for setting the time in a Date Control in MFC using C++ This will get the Date and set it to the control in what ever format the user machine uses. But I want to set it to a format of ONLY mm/dd/yyyy. There should be some way of … Read more

C++ JSON Serialization

For that you need reflection in C/C++, which doesn’t exist. You need to have some meta data describing the structure of your classes (members, inherited base classes). For the moment C/C++ compilers don’t automatically provide that information in built binaries. I had the same idea in mind, and I used GCC XML project to get … Read more

mysql.h file can’t be found

The mysql.h file from the libmysqlclient-dev Ubuntu package is located at /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h. This is not a standard search path for compilers, however /usr/include is. You’d typically use the mysql.h header in your code like this: If you don’t want to specify the directory offset in your source, you can pass the -I flag to gcc … Read more

Evaluate a string with a switch in C++ [duplicate]

I want to evaluate a string with a switch but when I read the string entered by the user throws me the following error. error: invalid cast from type ‘std::string {aka std::basic_string}’ to type ‘int

Whats the difference between UInt8 and uint8_t

In C99 the available basic integer types (the ones without _t) were deemed insufficient, because their actual sizes may vary across different systems. So, the C99 standard includes definitions of several new integer types to enhance the portability of programs. The new types are especially useful in embedded environments. All of the new types are … Read more