Visual Studio

Character set encoding in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio character set encoding is not only important for representation of local character sets. It’s also an important factor that will let you compile different libraries together. If you are using many different libraries you must decide what character set your project should use.

Syntax highlight of ipp-files in Visual Studio

IPP files are implementation files that are meant to be included in header files .hpp. They are useful when we work with templates. All template methods need to be defined in the header. Moving templates to .ipp-extention files makes it possible to logically separate template implementations.