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Developing Windows Applications in C++ (Articles Series)

July 25, 2011 Jul 25, 2011 07/25/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) We got just published “Developing Windows Applications in C++”,  an article series created by C++ Most Valuable Professional Kate Gregory. This material is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn how to write Windows applications. It won’t teach you C++, or how to use Windows as an end user. But if you know C...

Container Pretty Printer – Advanced STL, Part 6

July 11, 2011 Jul 11, 2011 07/11/11
Visual CPP Team
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 29, 2011 Jun 29, 2011 06/29/11
Visual CPP Team
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 22, 2011 Jun 22, 2011 06/22/11
Visual CPP Team
(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 17, 2011 Jun 17, 2011 06/17/11
Visual CPP Team
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 17, 2011 Jun 17, 2011 06/17/11
Visual CPP Team
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 ...

Just Released: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

June 16, 2011 Jun 16, 2011 06/16/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Following the announcement made a day ago about C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), now Microsoft Research released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta: a programming toolkit for application developers that enables the academic and enthusiast communities easy access to the capabilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect device ...

Introducing C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)

June 15, 2011 Jun 15, 2011 06/15/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
A few months ago, Herb Sutter told about a keynote he was to delivered today in the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (happening these days). He said by then: “Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety. We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and ...