Visual CPP Team

Post by this author

Container Pretty Printer – Advanced STL, Part 6

July 11th, 2011
In Part 6 of my second video lecture series focused on the Standard Template Library, I demonstrate how to write a "pretty printer" for STL containers that's capable of formatting a vector<tuple<int, string, int>> as [(1, "ten", 100), (2, "twenty", 200), (3, "thirty", 300)].  It's easy to use, with the default syntax being ...

C++ Q&A with Herb Sutter

June 29th, 2011
Herb's last appearance on C9 was a relatively short chat about C++0x. You wanted more questions so Herb decided that the best way to get the questions you want asked is, well, to have you ask them. Most of the highest user-rated questions were asked and Herb answers with his usual precision. So, without further ado, it's C++ question and ...

Mohsen Agsen: C++ Today and Tomorrow

June 22nd, 2011
(image) For those who haven't seen it yet, Charles Torre interviewed again Mohsen Agsen, Microsoft Technical Fellow who runs the Visual C++ engineering team. Back in February Mohsen and Charles had had a first conversation, when they put forward the notion of a renaissance taking place in the native world. The reception to C++ ...

Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast Code Using GPUs and More, with C++ AMP

June 17th, 2011
You have lastly read in this blog about the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) [1]. Since yesterday, those who couldn’t attend the AMD Fusion Developer Summit have the chance to watch on demand Herb Sutter’s keynote where C++ AMP was introduced and some demos were shown [2].Now Daniel Moth's C++ AMP ...

Update on Bulletin MS11-025

June 17th, 2011
A while back Microsoft had released security bulletin MS11-025 that addressed a publicly disclosed vulnerability in certain applications built using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate file associated with such an affected application, and the file ...

Internal Compiler Error when doing multi-proc compilation (/MP) on Windows XP

June 8th, 2011
(image) Hi! My name is Ulzii Luvsanbat and I’m a Senior Test Lead with the Visual C++ team. We’ve recently received multiple bug reports on VC++ 2010 compiler consistently crashing during multi-proc build on Windows XP and XP SP3 OSes.  This was a combination of the compiler and OS API issues that exhibited in internal ...

Advanced STL Lectures, Part 5: the Boost Library

June 3rd, 2011
(image) In this 5th part of the advanced series, Stephan T. Lavavej digs into the Boost Library. In his words, it's an open source, super quality, community-driven Standard Template Library (STL). Stephan will walk you through a sample application from end to end, using Boost. New to the Standard Template Library? Watch Stephan’s ...

Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data

May 26th, 2011
(image) Hi, this is Jim Springfield. I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. In any concurrent application, protecting data from concurrent access is extremely important. There are many primitives that can be used for this, such as critical sections, mutexes, reader-writer locks, etc. There are also some newer high-level approaches ...

ALM for C++ in Visual Studio 11 at TechEd NA 2011

May 18th, 2011
(image) Greetings!! I’m Rong Lu, Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. It’s been extremely exciting in Atlanta at TechEd North America 2011! Terry Leeper, Diego Dagum and I had a chance to be at TechEd and joined the announcement of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) roadmap in Visual Studio 11. On Monday, Jason Zander ...

New ALM Tools for Visual C++ Developers

May 16th, 2011
(image) Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio ...