What is COM?

Component Object Model is an architecture for component reuse that allows dynamic and efficient composition of systems from independently developed binary of components. 

~ Don Box

Basics

Books for Visual C++

Programming Visual C++ by David J. Kruglinski is the most popular one and Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ but Kanithkar's Visual C++ Programming was the one that I began with.

Files and Purposes

• .sln file records information about the projects in the solution - names, relative paths, VS version used and configuration platforms such as debug/release defined for both solution and projects etc..
• .suo file, in which user options that apply to the solution will be recorded.
• .sdf contains data about IntelliSense for the solution. 
• .opensdf captures information about the state of the project. One would happen to see this file only while the project is open and disappears soon the solution is closed.

Reference(s)

MSDN

Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2013

That's that

there is nothing more to do or say about further.

Adam Sandler, who has been timid most part of the movie Punch-drunk Love, victimized for extortion, eventually warned the guy to say that's that to stop troubling him any further, succinctly.

Design Patterns

Here is a link, which depicts patterns amazingly simple and helps one to comprehend easily.

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++14 = 14

C++1y was the name sometimes used instead until its approval as earlier C++ standard revisions were noticeably late. But came out on 2014, itself - C++14 is on time.

A word to the wise (is enough)

a hint or brief explanation given, that being all that is required.

Other similar forms: A word to the wise and a kick to the dumb or Verb sap 

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Architect vs Manager

An Architect is like a director (making sure, things get done correctly), whereas a Project Manager is like a producer (making sure, things get done), taking the filmmaking as an analogy.

-  The Process of Software Architecting (book)

Clean Code

A slogan that I have been voicing, now a days, more often to the developers during the code reviews is:

SLAP your code, make it SOLID and ensure (Unit) Tested.