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November CTP, isocpp.org, Standard C++ Foundations Announced Today
November 2, 12:45pm PDT C++ use and investment continues to grow strongly in all parts of the software industry, and broadly across all major industries. As Herb Sutter said, more than ever “Microsoft is built on C++, and the world runs on C++.” At the same time, programmers now need to be educated that C++ is not the same language it was in the past; with the new C++11 standard that contains major updates, modern C++ code is cleaner and more powerful than ever. As C++’s creator Bjarne Stroustrup notes, “C++11 feels like a new language.” Today in a “The Future of C++” session at Build, Microsoft made a num...
BUILD: Wednesday Update
C++ is alive at Build 2012! Developers have been filling the C++ sessions and getting tips, tricks, insights and example code from the experts. But you don't have to take our word -- sessions from Tuesday are available online: And if you have 90 seconds, catch this quick chat with Herb Sutter: [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VWf01ECulHM] Visit C++ at Build 2012 for the larger list of sessions/summaries.
Project Austin Part 6 of 6: Storage
Hi, my name is George Mileka. I’m a developer on the C++ Libraries team. I have been working on the Project Code Name Austin for many months with Jorge, Eric, and Alan. To learn more about what the Project Code Name Austin is, you can read this great post by Jorge Pereira. For Project Austin, we have used ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) as the storage engine. In this blog post, I will explain why we chose ESE, how ESE works, and finally what abstractions we have created around it for our own use. Why use ESE? When we started thinking about how to store the pages, the strokes, and the photos in the notebook,...
C++ at BUILD 2012
Experience the Build conference on Channel 9 and learn how to build fierce Windows 8 apps using C++ from the experts: If you are at Build, try to catch a few of these sessions. If you were unable to make Build, watch Channel 9 for session videos. On the social front, like Visual C++ (Visual CPP) on Facebook and follow Visual C++ on Twitter! As always, we look forward to your comments, suggestions and other feedback!
Hello ARM: Exploring Undefined, Unspecified, and Implementation-defined Behavior in C++
With the introduction of Windows RT for ARM devices, many Windows software developers will be encountering ARM processors for the first time. For the native C++ developer this means the potential for running afoul of undefined, unspecified, or implementation-defined behavior--as defined by the C++ language--that is expressed differently on the ARM architecture than on the x86 or x64 architectures that most Windows developers are familiar with. In C++, the results of certain operations, under certain circumstances, are intentionally ambiguous according to the language specification. In the specification this is kn...
C++/CX Part 4 of [n]: Static Member Functions
See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at static member functions and how they are supported by the Windows Runtime. A Windows Runtime reference type (also called a ref class in C++/CX, or a runtime class) can have static member functions. In C++/CX, the syntax used to declare a static member function in a runtime class is exactly the same as the syntax used in an ordinary C++ class. To demonstrate this, here is a runtime class with one static member function: (Note that we ...
Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering
When we designed the user experience of Austin, we spent quite some time thinking about the different page views and layouts, and how to transition between them. We wanted to create an immersive experience where the user can manipulate and navigate Austin's pages in an intuitive way; pages zoom in and out in 3D with pinch gestures, and the camera glides over the pages and even tilts a little bit when a finger is dragged on the screen. This makes the pages simply appear to "float" in 3D space and move around and re-arrange themselves as needed. To add some visual eye-candy, I spent some...
More Q&A for the C++ AMP book
As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP, an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our hard-hitting questions. In this post, Kate answers the same set of questions:Q1. “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or less?C++ apps can speed up the data parallel parts by 100x – imagine what that makes possible! And it’s C++ all the way.Q2. How did you get interested in writing about C++ AMP?I’ve been watching parallelism and concurrency since PDC 2005 wh...
Check out the new C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller
The C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller is available in print or online from your favorite retailer! What is in it for you? Among other things, you will discover how to: I was able to corner Ade Miller long enough to answer a few questions:Q1: “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or less?“A hardware agnostic data parallel programming model for C++.”That’s pretty terse :). The C++ bit is important: C++ AMP is C++ not C.Q2. How did you get interested in writing about C++ AMP?I’ve had a longstanding interest in GPU programming. I got into it when I was writing a...