August 1998
Volume 16 Number 08
WINDOWS
A Windows NT Exception Class Library
Eric Gufford
Marrying Win32 exceptions with C++ exception handling takes a lot of work, but the payoff can be high — particularly if most of the work has been done for you.
A Wrapper Class for NT Services
John T. Bell
Like many aspects of Windows NT, talking to the Service Control Manager is a task best left to an expert.
Encapsulating DDE
Giovanni Bavestrelli
The less you have to fool with the details of Dynamic Data Exchange, the more likely you are to get it right.
FEATURES
The New HTML Help Standard
Keith Bugg
Few subsystems needed more help than Windows Help. Fortunately, Web technology once again simplifies matters.
Creating Simple Persistent Objects
Alberto Florentin
Persistent objects aren't all that hard to implement, but they do take a bit of, well, persistence.
Creating a Word Iterator
James M. Curran
Iterators can do more than just step through data. They can, for example, do a bit of parsing along the way.
BOOK REVIEW
The Programmer's Guide to SCSI
reviewed by Marc Briand
C/C++ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Standard C/C++: The Facet collate
P. J. Plauger
Comparing two character sequences is relatively easy, once you know which one should come first.
The Learning C/C++urve: Yo Quiero VLAs
Bobby Schmidt
VLAs bring a little bit of C++ to C, along with a host of uncertainties.
Questions & Answers: Every Template Needs a friend (Now and Then)
Pete Becker
Pete explains why template specializations aren't friends, and why character constants shouldn't be treated as numbers.