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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. ...

How we test the compiler performance

July 7, 2010 Jul 7, 2010 07/7/10
Visual CPP Team
The C++ back-end team is very conscious of the performance of our product.  Today I will present to you an overview of how we define “performance of our product” and the way we measure it.  Along the way I hope to introduce you to some new ideas that you can use to test your product’s performance as well. You can ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 1

July 2, 2010 Jul 2, 2010 07/2/10
Visual CPP Team
I recently recorded the first part of a video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library.  It assumes familiarity with C++, but begins with the STL basically from scratch.  Channel 9 hooked up my laptop so I could write, compile, and execute code as I went along.  Check it out here: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/...

C++ debugging survey

June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10
Visual CPP Team
The Visual Studio Debugger Team is currently planning features for the next release of Visual Studio.  We would like to hear from our C++ developers to make sure that their needs are understood.  Please take a couple of minutes to complete the very short survey below.  The survey is totally anonymous and the data that you ...

VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack

June 18, 2010 Jun 18, 2010 06/18/10
Visual CPP Team
Recently we announced the availability of Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for MSDN subscribers which complements the Architecture tools in VS2010. There is great C/C++ code visualization support in there. Read a blog post by Somasegar here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2010/06/17/modeling-websites-and-native-code.aspx ...