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February 28, 2014Feb 28, 201402/28/14AVX2 is yet another extension to the venerable x86 line of processors, doubling the width of its SIMD vector registers to 256 bits, and adding dozens of new instructions. AVX2 shipped with Intel’s latest processor micro-architecture, codenamed “Haswell“. (Its official name is “4th generation Intel®
February 25, 2014Feb 25, 201402/25/14Today, we have released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, a go-live Team Foundation Server 2013 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC. This update release preview includes several significant feature additions as well as fixes. You can see full details in the release notes.
February 21, 2014Feb 21, 201402/21/14A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to share a few scenarios where C++ really matters to an internal audience from the field. No demo code or sample projects were reviewed, just the scenarios and first-hand examples.
Why C++?
Learn “what those C++ folks”
February 18, 2014Feb 18, 201402/18/14Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA:
The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in last summer’s comment ballot for the upcoming C++14 standard.
February 14, 2014Feb 14, 201402/14/14I’ve spent many hours reading articles on Raymond Chen’s blog, The Old New Thing. It is one of the most popular blogs on MSDN with content ranging from concerts at the Seattle Symphony to Win32 and marriage and native programming. Included are a number of interesting articles with,
February 11, 2014Feb 11, 201402/11/14You don’t need to call Ghostbusters. Spend some time (re)reading some great posts from the Visual C++ team blog past. There really are some hidden gems in there!
C++ Debugger Tips by Sergey Grankin (8/2006) describes the “special expression and format specifiers that you can use to better examine the content in the debugger’s watch windows.”
February 7, 2014Feb 7, 201402/7/14The Advanced Developers Conference 2014 takes place April 29-30 in Munich. This years sessions will be about modern device apps, debugging, drivers, graphics,cloud services and much more.
The conference will host about 200 attendees with a broad range of international speakers including one or two from Microsoft.
February 4, 2014Feb 4, 201402/4/14This challenge appeared on an internal alias dedicated to C++. It was issued by Mike Vine, a developer here at Microsoft who agreed to let us share it with the mighty Visual C++ blog readers:
This challenge came from me thinking about a simple bug which could be turned into a security vulnerability,
February 4, 2014Feb 4, 201402/4/14This challenge appeared on an internal alias dedicated to C++. It was issued by Mike Vine, a developer here at Microsoft who agreed to let us share it with the mighty Visual C++ blog readers:
This challenge came from me thinking about a simple bug which could be turned into a security vulnerability,
