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Microsoft Tells What's Next for C++

December 5, 2010 Dec 5, 2010 12/5/10
Visual CPP Team
 By chance,  are you among those who think that Microsoft is leaving native development in general and the C++ programming language in particular behind? You better watch this interview to Ale Contenti, Principal Development Manager with the Windows C++ team at Microsoft. [View:http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/bdef/183a9795-09f1-...

Regular Expressions – Video Introduction to the STL, Part 8

November 18, 2010 Nov 18, 2010 11/18/10
Visual CPP Team
C++0x's <regex> header combines Perl's regular expressions with C++'s templates and iterators.  The result, like the rest of the STL, is insanely powerful but potentially overwhelming at first sight.  It's actually easy to use, and much easier than writing string processing code by hand.  I demonstrate how to start using &...

Video Introduction to the STL, Parts 6 and 7

October 25, 2010 Oct 25, 2010 10/25/10
Visual CPP Team
Part 6 and Part 7 of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library are now available; they cover algorithms and functors. Previous parts:  Part 1 (sequence containers)Part 2 (associative containers)Part 3 (smart pointers)Part 4 (Nurikabe solver introduction)Part 5 (Nurikabe solver conclusion) My Nurikabe ...

More Hilo – Sharing Photos with Hilo

September 27, 2010 Sep 27, 2010 09/27/10
Visual CPP Team
Hilo is back. Keeping our promise of delivering more Windows 7 developer fun, we bring you the third installment of the Hilo series. We continue building on the first two applications (covered in Chapters 1 thru 11 on this link). This time we have added features to share photos online and a much improved user interface. Below is a screenshot...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 5

September 16, 2010 Sep 16, 2010 09/16/10
Visual CPP Team
In the fifth part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library, I explain how the advanced analysis in my Nurikabe solver works.  One of its steps involves using a breadth-first search to detect any unreachable cells. Mandatory prerequisites of Part 5 are reading Wikipedia's Nurikabe page and watching Part 4 (...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 4

September 8, 2010 Sep 8, 2010 09/8/10
Visual CPP Team
In the fourth part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library, I walk through an extended example of using the STL to solve Nurikabe puzzles.  It assumes that you've read Wikipedia's Nurikabe page, and that you've watched Part 1 (sequence containers), Part 2 (associative containers), and Part 3 (smart pointers), ...

Hilo Update – Introducing “Hilo Annotator”

August 23, 2010 Aug 23, 2010 08/23/10
Visual CPP Team
In May this year, we announced Project Hilo and promised a set of cool sample applications written in C++. At that time we had released the first application in the Hilo series. Since then we have published some articles that walk the reader through all the steps that go into developing the Hilo Browser application (Chapter 1 thru 8 on this ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 3

August 13, 2010 Aug 13, 2010 08/13/10
Visual CPP Team
The third part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available, following Part 1 and Part 2.  Part 3 covers unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and exception handling (briefly).  It explains my solution to the container erasure problem, and presents a significantly larger homework problem: writing a Nurikabe...

The Filterator

August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10
Visual CPP Team
My name is Ahmed Charles and I currently work on Windows Error Reporting.  I believe that this is the first time that someone not on the VC team has written a blog, but I hope you will find it useful anyways.  I’d like to thank Stephan T. Lavavej for the idea and valuable feedback while writing it.  And we both owe the ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 2

July 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010 07/22/10
Visual CPP Team
The second part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available.  This part covers the STL's associative containers and the erase-remove idiom.  It assumes that you've watched Part 1. More parts are on their way!  Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see. Stephan T. ...