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Eclipse – Exclude / de-exclude from build

Thursday, June 25, 2009 22:02 6 Comments

Sometimes working with Eclipse can be frustrating. I just spent an hour of my life looking how to include back a file into build that was excluded before (exclude from build). To spare you that drama, just go to: Project Preferences -> C/C++ General -> Paths & Symbols ->  Source Location Click on the folder [...]

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Eclipse / Doxygen – Documentation Generator

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 19:22 No Comments

Doxygen is a well known source code documentation generator. More information about it is available on their homepage. For all those of you who prefer Eclipse as your main development platform there is a plugin that provides a high-level graphical user interface integration over Doxygen. More info about Eclox.

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Eclipse square bracket [] problem

Saturday, June 6, 2009 18:04 No Comments

Some people will experience a problem with Eclipse when trying to close the square brackets []. Eclipse will complain about not beeing able to evaluate a text selection and it won’t allow you typing that closing bracket. I got frustrated a bit because of not knowing whats going on. It wasn’t possible to write simple [...]

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VC++ .net2 application doesn’t run on Windows 2000?

Monday, September 15, 2008 1:59 No Comments

Quite often there is a problem that VC++ applications won’t run on a Windows system that doesn’t have Visual Studio installed. The two most common reasons for that are: – Missing VC++ runtime libraries You can get them directly fromo Microsoft – The application is compiled in “Debug” mode. Some application require to be build [...]

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How to change the default language in Vistual Studio 2005

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:12 No Comments

I ran into a problem of not knowing how to change the default language from C# to C++ in Visual Studio 2005, but finally discovered the solution which wasn’t simple and easy to find as presumed so I thought it would make a good tip for you guys reading this ;) – Go to Tools [...]

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