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Download Today: Refreshed Casablanca Bits Available

September 24, 2012 Sep 24, 2012 09/24/12
Artur Laksberg
Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. At the end of June, we refreshed the bits for support of Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 RP. Those builds are now rather long in the tooth, and ...

Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction

September 20, 2012 Sep 20, 2012 09/20/12
Jorge Pereira - MSFT
My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a developer at Microsoft.  For the past few months I've been working on a Windows 8 app along with a small team of developers from the Visual C++ team, we call it Project Code Name Austin. Austin is a digital note-taking app for Windows 8. You can add pages to your notebook, delete them, or move ...

Casablanca at TechEd Australia

September 19, 2012 Sep 19, 2012 09/19/12
Artur Laksberg
(image) A few days ago, our friends and technology enthusiasts John Azariah and Mahesh Krishnan delivered a great presentation on Casablanca at the TechEd Australia. John and Mahesh go deep - PPL tasks, table and blob storage, Metro client, Azure deployment, and of course, lots of great demos. Enjoy: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd...

C++/CX Part 2 of [n]: Types That Wear Hats

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12
Visual CPP Team
See C++/CX Part 0 of [N]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series. The hat () is one of the most prominent features of C++/CX--it's hard not to notice it when one first sees C++/CX code. So, what exactly is a type? A hat type is a smart pointer type that (1) automatically manages the lifetime of a Windows Runtime object and (2) ...

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop

September 12, 2012 Sep 12, 2012 09/12/12
Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]
As you may have seen, Soma announced today that Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is now available for download.  For C++ developers, the Express for Windows Desktop includes many of the new C++ investments we made in Visual Studio 2012, including C++ AMP, improvements to C++ 11 Standards conformance, improvements to the ...

C++/CX Part 1 of [n]: A Simple Class

September 5, 2012 Sep 5, 2012 09/5/12
Visual CPP Team
See C++/CX Part 0 of [N]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series. In this article we'll consider the basics of C++/CX by looking at a simple Windows Runtime class; we'll skim over some of the details, but don't worry: we'll come back and cover them in future posts. The code in this post is complete, though some namespace ...

C++ AMP Resources

August 31, 2012 Aug 31, 2012 08/31/12
Visual CPP Team
Hopefully by now you have heard of C++ AMP. C++ AMP is a modern C++ library (plus a key new language feature) that ships with Visual Studio 2012 and it lets you take advantage of accelerators, such as the GPU, for compute purposes. Think data parallelism, but at a massive level, accelerated by powerful hardware. If you need more motivation on ...

C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction

August 29, 2012 Aug 29, 2012 08/29/12
Visual CPP Team
Hello; I'm James McNellis, and I've recently joined the Visual C++ team as a libraries developer. My first encounter with the C++/CX language extensions was early last year, while implementing some code generation features for the Visual Studio 2012 XAML designer. I started off by hunting for some example code, and it suffices to say that...

Connecting C++ and XAML

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a tester on the C++ frontend compiler and one of the primary testers of the C++/CX language extensions.  If you’re like me, making use of a technology without understanding how it works can be confusing and frustrating.  This blog post will help explain how XAML and C++ work together in the build system...

Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012

August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 08/14/12
Rahul V. Patil
If you have read Jason Zander’s post earlier today, you know that Visual Studio 2012 has been released to the web! Check out the MSDN Subscriber Download Page  and the Visual Studio product website. This release has brought a huge amount of new value for C++ developers. Here are the highlights:    C++11 Standards ...