October 2012 | C++ Team Blog

BUILD: Wednesday Update

Eric BattalioOctober 31, 2012Oct 31, 201210/31/12

C++ is alive at Build 2012! Developers have been filling the C++ sessions and getting tips, tricks, insights and example code from the experts. But you don't have to take our word -- sessions from Tuesday are available online: And if you have 90 seconds, catch this quick chat with Herb Sutter: [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?fea

Project Austin Part 6 of 6: Storage

George Mileka [MSFT]October 29, 2012Oct 29, 201210/29/12

Hi, my name is George Mileka. I’m a developer on the C++ Libraries team. I have been working on the Project Code Name Austin for many months with Jorge, Eric, and Alan. To learn more about what the Project Code Name Austin is, you can read this great post by Jorge Pereira. For Project Austin, we have used ESE (Extensible Storage Engine)

C++ at BUILD 2012

Eric BattalioOctober 29, 2012Oct 29, 201210/29/12

Experience the Build conference on Channel 9 and learn how to build fierce Windows 8 apps using C++ from the experts: If you are at Build, try to catch a few of these sessions. If you were unable to make Build, watch Channel 9 for session videos. On the social front, like Visual C++ (Visual CPP) on Facebook and foll

Hello ARM: Exploring Undefined, Unspecified, and Implementation-defined Behavior in C++

Michael from RedmondOctober 25, 2012Oct 25, 201210/25/12

With the introduction of Windows RT for ARM devices, many Windows software developers will be encountering ARM processors for the first time. For the native C++ developer this means the potential for running afoul of undefined, unspecified, or implementation-defined behavior--as defined by the C++ language--that is expressed differently on the

C++/CX Part 4 of [n]: Static Member Functions

James McNellisOctober 19, 2012Oct 19, 201210/19/12

See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at static member functions and how they are supported by the Windows Runtime. A Windows Runtime reference type (also called a ref class in C++/CX, or a runtime class)

Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering

Jorge Pereira - MSFTOctober 18, 2012Oct 18, 201210/18/12

When we designed the user experience of Austin, we spent quite some time thinking about the different page views and layouts, and how to transition between them. We wanted to create an immersive experience where the user can manipulate and navigate Austin's pages in an intuitive way; pages zoom in and out in 3D with pinch gestures, and t

More Q&A for the C++ AMP book

Eric BattalioOctober 15, 2012Oct 15, 201210/15/12

As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP, an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our hard-hitting questions. In this post, Kate answers the same set of questions:Q1. “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or l

Check out the new C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller

Eric BattalioOctober 12, 2012Oct 12, 201210/12/12

The C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller is available in print or online from your favorite retailer! What is in it for you? Among other things, you will discover how to: I was able to corner Ade Miller long enough to answer a few questions:Q1: “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or less?“A hardware agnosti

Project Austin Part 4 of 6: C++ AMP acceleration

Amit K AgarwalOctober 11, 2012Oct 11, 201210/11/12

Hello, I am Amit Agarwal, a developer on the C++ AMP team. C++ AMP is a new technology available in Visual Studio 2012 that enables C++ developers to make the best use of available heterogeneous computing resources in their applications from within the same C++ sources and the VS IDE they use for programming the CPU. Austin is a digital note-t

Windows XP Targeting with C++ in Visual Studio 2012

Ibrahim DamlajOctober 8, 2012Oct 8, 201210/8/12

Background In June, we announced enhanced targeting for Windows XP using the Visual Studio 2012 C++ compiler and libraries. This feature has been included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. You can download it from here. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the Windows XP targeting experience, the level of C++ runtime support,

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