April 2014

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14

Eric Battalio

Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda: Visual C++ MVP Jochen Kalmbach will be there exploring debugging tools for Windows. Are you attending? Share your thoughts and pictures on Twitter using hashtag #adcpp&...

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14

Eric Battalio

Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14

Eric Battalio

MSDN hosts a number of excellent blogs including the .NET Framework Blog. They are not exclusively .NET: In VS2013 RTM we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub with a bunch of tools that help you diagnose issues during your Windows Store app development. With VS2013 Update 2 we added two brand new tools: CPU Usage, and Memory Usage. ...

Parallel STL – Democratizing Parallelism in C++

April 16, 2014 Apr 16, 2014 04/16/14

Artur Laksberg

Only a few years ago, writing parallel code in C++ was a domain of the experts. Nowadays, this field is becoming more and more accessible to regular developers thanks to the advances in libraries, such as the PPL and C++ AMP from Microsoft, Intel's Threading Building Blocks, OpenMP or OpenACC if you prefer a pragma-style approach, OpenCL for ...

Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag

April 15, 2014 Apr 15, 2014 04/15/14

Eric Battalio

Tech Days is the annual Microsoft Conference for software development, software architecture and IT solutions in the Netherlands. The Tech Days conference covers the full spectrum of Microsoft development technologies with sessions about Modern Application Development, Cloud, Web, Phone, Visual Studio, User Experience, Management, Deployment, ...

Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag

April 15, 2014 Apr 15, 2014 04/15/14

Eric Battalio

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14

Rong Lu

Hello, everyone! My name is Rong Lu, a program manager on the Visual C++ team. Last week at BUILD conference, I gave a talk on “DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2” in which we walked through a couple of exciting new features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Download Update 2 RC) for DirectX development...

CppCon – The C++ Conference

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Eric Battalio

In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft put on the GoingNative conference which is all about portable C++ on all compilers and platforms. The two GoingNative events were wildly popular and have been two of the biggest C++ conferences ever, so developers have been asking us: Will there be a GoingNative 2014, and when?In his Build conference session Modern ...

CppCon – The C++ Conference

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Eric Battalio

BUILD 2014, Talks for Thursday

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14

Eric Battalio

While I am not attending the Build conference myself, I did tune in for the keynote and bits and pieces of other live-streamed talks and look forward to catching many of the sessions over on Channel 9 once they are available.Here is what is happening for C++ developers at Build on Thursday, 4/3: Share your thoughts in the comments below ...

C++ Team Blog

April 2014 - C++ Team Blog

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2

Parallel STL – Democratizing Parallelism in C++

Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag

Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2

CppCon – The C++ Conference

CppCon – The C++ Conference

BUILD 2014, Talks for Thursday