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October 2011 - C++ Team Blog

Inside the C++/CX Design

October 20, 2011 Oct 20, 2011 10/20/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello. This is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team. Today, I want to give some insight into the new language extensions, officially called C++/CX, which was designed to support the new API model in Windows 8. If you attended //BUILD/, watched some of the sessions online, or have been playing with the prerelease of...

C9 Lecture: C Runtime (CRT) Topics, by Mahmoud Saleh

October 11, 2011 Oct 11, 2011 10/11/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
In a recent Going Native episode in Channel 9, Charles (Torre) and I interviewed Mahmoud Saleh, the software engineer who keeps the C Runtime library. Now Mahmoud prepared for you a 1-hour lecture on some of the CRT topics like [Watch this Channel 9 lecture] (image...

Announcing Wrox’s Professional C++, 2nd Edition

October 10, 2011 Oct 10, 2011 10/10/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “Professional C++, Second Edition”. This second edition includes the latest C++ standard, C++11, and is based on the great first edition written by Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper. The book is ...

C9::GoingNative 2: the Windows Runtime Library (WRL)

October 4, 2011 Oct 4, 2011 10/4/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) We're back with the third installment of C9::GoingNative. At the recent //BUILD conference, we introduced a series of technologies targeting the upcoming version of the Windows platform. One of those consists in some extensions to the C++ language, intended to help developers bridge their C++ logic to the Windows Runtime (WinRT) ...