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January 29, 2011Jan 29, 201101/29/11This week comes with an article to help you set your application for parallelization; C++ MVP Dan Rollins researches on various ways to implement properties in C++; Issam Iqbal, C++ MVP, gives another twist to the TO CLI or NOT TO CLI debate when creating unit tests for our unmanaged code (voting for “NOT TO CLI”).
January 28, 2011Jan 28, 201101/28/11A few days ago, we posted two C++ quizzes based on a question posted in a forum. Let’s review the first question
Quiz 1
#include <iostream>
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class Foo {
public:
    virtual void DoStuff()=0;
};
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class Bar : public Foo {
public:
    virtual void DoStuff(int a)=0;
January 26, 2011Jan 26, 201101/26/11The patterns & practices group is writing a new guide that will introduce Visual C++ programmers to patterns for including parallelism in their applications. Examples of these patterns are parallel loops, parallel tasks and data aggregation with map-reduce. Each pattern has its own chapter.
January 25, 2011Jan 25, 201101/25/11I was reading recent discussion threads and found something interesting that someone introduced as a question, but instead of start developing the whole story from here, I’ll just challenge you with two different quiz games.
Quiz 1
#include <iostream>
class Foo {
public:
virtual void DoStuff()=0;
January 22, 2011Jan 22, 201101/22/11Paperli.PaperWidget.Show({
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Greetings!! The 4th issue of The Visual C++ Weekly is out there. This issue starts with an article due to C++ MVP Marc Gregoire on an extension that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta brings to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to allow animations.
January 18, 2011Jan 18, 201101/18/11Microsoft is working to provide developers the next experience with local documentation. Last December, the Library team released the SP1 beta version of its Microsoft Help Viewer for Visual Studio. Additionally, there are a number of changes and improvement being made on the local Help Viewer,
January 18, 2011Jan 18, 201101/18/11Erik Meijer –host of the “Expert to Expert” series in Channel 9- interviews Herb Sutter -an Architect on the VC++ team and chair of the C++ Standards Committee.
In this thought-provoking talk, Herb and Erik cover generic programming, function objects, lambdas,
January 15, 2011Jan 15, 201101/15/11
We just released the third issue of The Visual C++ Weekly. For technical reasons, from the original list of articles, there are two that weren’t caught and got lost but we’ll make sure to include them in the fourth issue (to appear next Saturday,
January 13, 2011Jan 13, 201101/13/11In the last Professional Developer Conference (PDC), a few months ago, Chas Boyd –PM Architect with Windows Graphics at Microsoft- delivered a general overview of the Windows Graphics architecture, its different APIs and the application types they are intended to. It’s a 100-level session,
January 11, 2011Jan 11, 201101/11/11A recent study showed that C++ is still among the most used languages (ahead of any other Visual Studio officially supported language like C# or Visual Basic). But despite being widely used and known by several generations of developers –thanks that it has been out there for decades now,
