POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Wiki/Forum Registration

Since upgrading the Tiki software to the latest release (due to the security issue posted earlier), the wiki and forum registration is unfortunately broken, so registering a new user does not work. We are working on the issue with the Tiki developers and hope to have it fixed soon. In the meantime, just reply to […]


More Data Results

A couple of new features supported by PocoData: multiple resultsets (for batches of statements and stored procedures/functions returning cursors) step – variable number of fetched rows Date and Time binding/extraction (in addition to DateTime) The step feature only works for connectors that support it (e.g. ODBC), otherwise it is silently ignored (e.g. SQLite). Date and […]


XML Schema support

Today I finished the implementation of our XML schema parser. Just need to test it throughly and then I can start to implement a C++ code generator based on schema information. This should work flawlessly together with PocoRemoting 🙂 Generating code is so much more fun than writing it…


The Wiki Has Been Hacked

On November 1, someone hacked our Wiki. The result was that, whenever a link to the Wiki was clicked from a Google search result page, the browser would be redirected to some pr0n site. Thanks to Eric Hill and others for telling me about this. As a result of this, I have upgraded both the […]


Status Update

The weblog has been quite silent lately, mostly for the reason that we have been quite busy with various projects (using POCO, of course). A few quick updates: Alex has done some significant improvements to the Data library (he has occasionally blogged here about it). I have made some performance improvements to the XML library […]