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May 2011 - C++ Team Blog

Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data

May 26, 2011 May 26, 2011 05/26/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, this is Jim Springfield. I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. In any concurrent application, protecting data from concurrent access is extremely important. There are many primitives that can be used for this, such as critical sections, mutexes, reader-writer locks, etc. There are also some newer high-level approaches ...

Ask Herb Sutter

May 19, 2011 May 19, 2011 05/19/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
As a follow up of the recent interview that Charles Torre (Channel 9) made to Herb Sutter (Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team), they want the audience –in other words you guys- to send candidate questions. Herb made a call in his blog. I won’t reproduce his entry here, I just want to let you know in case you aren’t ...

ALM for C++ in Visual Studio 11 at TechEd NA 2011

May 18, 2011 May 18, 2011 05/18/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings!! I’m Rong Lu, Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. It’s been extremely exciting in Atlanta at TechEd North America 2011! Terry Leeper, Diego Dagum and I had a chance to be at TechEd and joined the announcement of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) roadmap in Visual Studio 11. On Monday, Jason Zander ...

New ALM Tools for Visual C++ Developers

May 16, 2011 May 16, 2011 05/16/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio ...

Rock Hard: C++ Evolving

May 11, 2011 May 11, 2011 05/11/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, I’m Boris Jabes, senior program manager lead on the Visual C++ team. Last month I delivered a session at DevDays 2011 Netherlands, taking a fresh perspective on C++0x (or should I say, C++11) and the power of modern native programming. Unlike talks we've done previously, I didn't go over every new feature in our compiler ...

Converting An MFC Ribbon To Designer Format

May 4, 2011 May 4, 2011 05/4/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC. In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t help you, however, if you adopted the ribbon user interface with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ...