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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 18 (Apr 30, 2011)

April 30, 2011 Apr 30, 2011 04/30/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: Advanced STL, Part 4 Concurrency Runtime: Transporting Exceptions between Threads DirectCompute Lecture Series 101: Introduction to DirectCompute (C++ and Beyond) Adventures in Perfect Forwarding (InformIT) Ten Techniques to Reduce the Size of Your Classes, Part I MS11-025 Visual C++ Update Issue (Code ...

Just Posted: Stephan T. Lavavej’s Advanced STL, 4 of n

April 27, 2011 Apr 27, 2011 04/27/11

Visual CPP Team

The 4th part of this series digs into rvalue references, perfect forwarding and associative containers. Advanced STL covers the gory details of the STL's implementation -> you will therefore need to be versed in the basics of STL, competent in C++ (of course), and be able to pay attention! Stephan is a great teacher and we are so happy to ...

MS11-025 Visual C++ Update Issue

April 26, 2011 Apr 26, 2011 04/26/11

Visual CPP Team

Greetings, I’m Raman Sharma, Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As part of the April Security Bulletin Release, Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-025. Since then, we became aware of some issues with this bulletin that impact some users on Windows 2000 and a subset of developers using Visual C++. Our team has ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 17 (Apr 23, 2011)

April 23, 2011 Apr 23, 2011 04/23/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: [Herb Sutter] Session Announcement: C++ and the GPU… and Beyond [Kate Gregory] Application Restart and Recovery on Windows 7 [Channel 9] Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons [ConcRT blog] The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Rvalue References [Anthony Williams] Picking Patterns for ...

Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons

April 22, 2011 Apr 22, 2011 04/22/11

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. I recently interviewed Boris Jabes, a fun Visual C++ Program Manager guy to talk to. After a brief discussion of IntelliSense in VC++ –Boris has the distinction of being the first guy to share the news about the removal of C++/CLI IntelliSense support in VC10, we move on to ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 16 (Apr 16, 2011)

April 16, 2011 Apr 16, 2011 04/16/11

Visual CPP Team

Read in this issue: FDIS Approved. What’s Next? A Base Class for Intrusively Reference-Counted Objects in C++ “Effective C++” in the C++0x (C++11) Age The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: The decltype Type Specifier MFC classes to encapsulate the Scintilla edit control C++0x Memory Model and Exceptional C++0x Push ...

Visual C++ Most Valuable Professionals (III)

April 14, 2011 Apr 14, 2011 04/14/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

This is the third and last part of our Channel 9 interviews to C++ Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), made during a recent Summit at MS headquarters. Meet Alon Fliess (Israel), Marius Bancila (Romania), Bruno Boucard (France) and Jim Beveridge (USA). They got the MVP distinction at different times (some really recently, some for a few years ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 15 (Apr 9, 2011)

April 9, 2011 Apr 9, 2011 04/9/11

Visual CPP Team

Read in this issue: Build Related Improvement in VS2010 SP1 The Asynchronous Agents Library (Stroustrup) Famous applications built in C++ The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Automatic Type Deduction _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL - Advanced STL, Part 3 Concurrency Runtime (CRT): The Task Scheduler...

_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL – Advanced STL, Part 3

April 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011 04/5/11

Visual CPP Team

In Part 3 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation, I explain how our powerful correctness checks in debug mode work. In VC10, they're controlled by the macro _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL, which supersedes VC8 and VC9's more confusing _SECURE_SCL and _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING macros. Additionally, ...

Build Related Improvement in VS2010 SP1

April 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011 04/5/11

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in C++ team. In VS2010, C++ has accomplished the migration of VCBuild to MSBuild based project and Build system. We have received very warm acceptance and overall customer satisfaction is very good. You can take a look of a few of my previous blogs (Native MultiTargeting, ...

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