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Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data
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 to concurrency such as those provided by the Concurrency Runtime, although this isn’t the focus of what I’m showing here. However, there isn’t a good way in C++ to make sure that you are really protecting data correctly when accessing it from multiple threads. You w...
The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 21 (May 21, 2011)
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Ask Herb Sutter
As a follow up of the recent interview that Charles Torre (Channel 9) made to Herb Sutter (Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team), they want the audience –in other words you guys- to send candidate questions. Herb made a call in his blog. I won’t reproduce his entry here, I just want to let you know in case you aren’t following his blog. Therefore, please don't post your question here, do it in his post.[Go to Herb’s call][Watch the original interview]
ALM for C++ in Visual Studio 11 at TechEd NA 2011
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 announced ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio 11 (check out his blog post for the entire roadmap and details), and then Cameron Skinner did a demo intensive foundational session which showed lots of the ALM features we’re putting in VC11 (check out his blog post and session recording). But yo...
New ALM Tools for Visual C++ Developers
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 Ultimate offers many “out of the box” features for efficiently and easily managing a C++ code base. At Tech Ed North America, Terry Leeper and Rong Lu will be showing off these useful features and giving C++ developers a sneak peak at what's coming... You should definite...
The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 20 (May 14, 2011)
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Rock Hard: C++ Evolving
Hi, I’m Boris Jabes, senior program manager lead on the Visual C++ team. Last month I delivered a session at DevDays 2011 Netherlands, taking a fresh perspective on C++0x (or should I say, C++11) and the power of modern native programming. Unlike talks we've done previously, I didn't go over every new feature in our compiler or in the standard. I focused instead on some of the fundamental unique aspects of the language that are made even better with the new standard. The session is now posted to be watched on demand (no, it’s not in Dutch; it’s in English ). It’s not just for C++ language geeks. In...
The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 19 (May 7, 2011)
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Converting An MFC Ribbon To Designer Format
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC. In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t help you, however, if you adopted the ribbon user interface with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you’re creating your ribbon UI entirely with code in your application. We did consider that scenario, however, and added functionality to MFC to allow conversion of a “code” ribbon to an XML ribbon resource. I’ve been meaning to post an article on how to do this, so here it is. I...