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April 30, 2012Apr 30, 201204/30/12Our devices are becoming increasingly connected, and at the same time our customers expect the applications running on those devices to be fast and fluid. Asynchrony is important on the client for responsiveness and on the server for scalability.
Today we are announcing Casablanca,
April 24, 2012Apr 24, 201204/24/12Hello all,
We’re hosting a one day, free technical event in Redmond on May 18, 2012 intended for developers who want to write Metro apps for Windows 8 with C++.
Details: Location: Redmond WA, Microsoft campus, bldg 92. Date: May 18th,
April 18, 2012Apr 18, 201204/18/12In my previous blog I talked about how in Visual Studio 11 we have eliminated the need to convert your Visual Studio 2010 C++ projects in order to adopt the new IDE. The blog also mentioned that you can build your projects using Visual Studio 2010 compiler (tools and libraries) from within Visual Studio 11 using the multi-targeting feature.
April 16, 2012Apr 16, 201204/16/12Following the Channel9 talk on Auto-Vectorization, we have now started a series of blog posts that dig deeper into the subject.
We decided to publish them, not here, on home territory, but in the NativeConcurrency blog instead. This already hosts discussions on PPL and C++ AMP.
April 12, 2012Apr 12, 201204/12/12(A message on behalf of the C++ Now! staff)
This year’s program is very exciting with lots more content than previous years. This year we’ll have three keynotes: Howard Hinnant, Sean Parent, and David Vandevoorde. They are headlining three tracks of over fifty sessions including one track of C++11 sessions.
April 6, 2012Apr 6, 201204/6/12Hi there! I’m Diego Dagum, a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team.
As Stephan announced last September when Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was released, our STL implementation comes with SCARY iterators. On Stephan’s words,
”(…) as permitted but not required by the C++11 Standard,
