C++ Team Blog

The latest in C++, Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg from the MSFT C++ team

Survey Says…

Survey, survey, survey!We really want you to fill out our new survey. It is short and focuses on your C++ development experience including Android and iOS. Why? Cross platform mobile device development is important:With bring-your-own-device trends in the enterprise, and heterogeneity in the consumer mobile device market, developers are ...

Survey Says…

Survey, survey, survey!We really want you to fill out our new survey. It is short and focuses on your C++ development experience including Android and iOS. Why? Cross platform mobile device development is important:With bring-your-own-device trends in the enterprise, and heterogeneity in the consumer mobile device market, developers are ...

Visual Studio Graphics Frame Analysis in action!

As mentioned in this blog post a few weeks ago, one of the features we're adding in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Download Update 2 RC) is Graphics Frame Analysis. This feature can be useful to help identify performance bottlenecks in your DirectX applications. How to use it? To start, launch your DirectX app with Graphics Diagnostics through...

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

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

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&...

Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2

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++

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

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

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, ...

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2

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...