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C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
March 31, 2011Mar 31, 201103/31/11Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. One of my goals is to make sure C++ has first class status on Channel 9. Make no mistake, the C++ Renaissance will be televised. 🙂
I’ve recently been posting interviews on C9 with some of the VC++ team and a few of the VC++ MVPs like Kate Gregory.
March 31, 2011Mar 31, 201103/31/11An update to the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Windows SDK 7.1) is now available. This update addresses the issue where Visual C++ Compilers and libraries that are installed with the Windows SDK are removed when Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is installed.
March 29, 2011Mar 29, 201103/29/11Hi, my name is Andy Rich and I’m a QA on the C++ front-end compiler. The IntelliSense system in Visual Studio 2010 comes with far greater power, flexibility, and accuracy, but these improvements come at the cost of greater complexity. The goal of this article is to assist you in troubleshooting this complex system,
March 26, 2011Mar 26, 201103/26/11Read in this issue:
[Herb Sutter] C++0x: We Have Final Draft International Standard!
[Parallel Patterns Library] Building Responsive GUI Applications with PPL Tasks
[C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio] Text-to-Speech in C++
[Danny Kalev] Detecting Memory Leaks to Improve Performance
[C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio] Checked Iterators
[Windows Development] Using Services
March 24, 2011Mar 24, 201103/24/11A few days ago we posted a video where C++ MVP Kate Gregory talked about her community distinction, her motivations, thoughts about the role C++ plays in these days of computer programming, etc.
Charles Torre, our interviewer in Channel 9, kept talking with other Visual C++ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).
March 22, 2011Mar 22, 201103/22/11Greetings! I’m David Blaikie, Software Design Engineer at Microsoft and guest blogger here on VCBlog. I work in the Windows product group, writing test infrastructure tools in C++. One of the luxuries of the codebases I work in is that they are relatively modern and flexible.
March 19, 2011Mar 19, 201103/19/11Read in this issue:
[Patterns and Practices] Parallel Programming with MS Visual C++ (online guidance)
[CodeProject] 3-D Software Rendering Engine – Part I
[Viva64] Lessons on Development of 64-bit Applications
[Vlad Lazarenko] C++ Exception Handling and Performance
[Channel 9] Kate Gregory on Being a Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
[Intel] Free Speedup with Compiler Switches for Fast Math and Intel®
March 17, 2011Mar 17, 201103/17/11The 2011 MVP Global Summit took place a few weeks ago at MS headquarters. MVP stands for most valuable professional, a distinction that Microsoft assign to some prominent community personalities for their passion and dedication in helping the community get the most out of Microsoft technologies.
March 15, 2011Mar 15, 201103/15/11Hi, my name is Ade Miller and I’m Principal Program Manager with the Microsoft Technical Computing group.
Last fall we shipped Parallel Programming for Microsoft .NET and immediately started working on a companion version of the book for C++ programmers. I’m very happy to announce that Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++: Design patterns for Decomposition,
March 12, 2011Mar 12, 201103/12/11Read in this issue:
[MS Parallel Programming] Sorting in PPL
[Visual C++ team] Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability
[John Socha-Leialoha] C++/CLI to C++ Tips and Tricks
[Thomas Becker] C++ Rvalue References Explained
[Stephan L. Lavavej] Algorithm Optimizations –
