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November 2013 - C++ Team Blog

C++ AMP to target Khronos SPIR and HSAIL

November 21, 2013 Nov 21, 2013 11/21/13
Eric Battalio
The Parallel Programming in Native Code blog recently announced Clang support for C++ AMP via LLVM backend. This is a key milestone in our commitment (as mentioned in Somasegar's blog) to share the C++ AMP specification to all C++ developers, regardless of whether they're using Visual C++ or not. Portability across hardware and platforms is ...

Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013

November 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013 11/19/13
Eric Battalio
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename refactoring in Visual C++ but it never quite made it. We were concerned about scalability, performance and accuracy for different user scenarios. ...

Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP

November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13
Eric Battalio
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in Visual Studio 2012. At that time, and at GoingNative 2013 this year, we promised to keep releasing these CTPs to show our progress towards full C...

Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch is here!

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
Eric Battalio
The worldwide launch of Visual Studio 2013 is today.Join Microsoft executives S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie, and Brian Harry at 7:00am PST for the keynote. Other events will follow throughout the day. Sessions will be recorded and shared later if you can't catch them all live.Visual C++ developers will want to tune in to the live Q&A session...

Microsoft Virtual Academy – C++: A General Purpose Language and Library

November 11, 2013 Nov 11, 2013 11/11/13
Eric Battalio
Interested in learning the basics of C++? Next Tuesday, November 19, Kate Gregory and James McNellis will be teaching a free introductory C++ course on Microsoft Virtual Academy, "C++: A General Purpose Language and Library." Kate is a C++ expert and long-time Microsoft Visual C++ MVP; James is a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. The...

Using Windows Azure Mobile Services from C++ Windows Store apps

November 5, 2013 Nov 5, 2013 11/5/13
Raman Sharma
Most good apps these days provide some kind of connected experience whether it is the ability to connect to existing popular web services (like Facebook, Twitter, SkyDrive etc.) or building their own custom backend based somewhere in the cloud.  Visual Studio 2013 provides support for both these scenarios for C++ developers.  For the...