For ages now I wanted to write me something nice and neat to get build count (how often the project was built) to append it to my version string. And obviously I wanted it to automatically update. However I never really got around to it or cared that much that I actually wrote it. But [...]

So I looked into boost.program_options today to parse command line arguments for my Windows Forms application. Which basically works great. Except for the little part to output the –help output to the console. Now, obviously when you start your application through Explorer you won’t have a console. And that is fine. I was only interested [...]