C++ Team Blog

cppcon registration open!

March 18, 2014 Mar 18, 2014 03/18/14

Eric Battalio

From cppcon:Registration is now open for CppCon 2014 to be held September 7–12, 2014 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The conference will start with the keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup titled "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"This is a full five-day conference, and in this first year the CppCon organizers are shooting ...

A Case of the Twitters

March 7, 2014 Mar 7, 2014 03/7/14

Eric Battalio

Do you watch the Twitterverse for interesting stuff about C++, development, life, the universe and everything? We do and in today's post share some recent Tweets that crossed our (@visualc) path: And for those of you at the SCSW conference:Join @Microsoft at @sxsw. Drop on by for events, meetups, parties & more http://spr.ly/...

Shrink my Program Database (PDB) file

March 5, 2014 Mar 5, 2014 03/5/14

Ankit Asthana

Overview PDB's (Program Database file), PDB stands for Program Database, a proprietary file format (developed by Microsoft) for storing debugging information about a program (or, commonly, binaries such as a DLL or EXE). PDB files commonly have a .pdb extension. A PDB file is typically created from source ...

AVX2 Support in Visual Studio C++ Compiler

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14

Jim Hogg

AVX2 is yet another extension to the venerable x86 line of processors, doubling the width of its SIMD vector registers to 256 bits, and adding dozens of new instructions.  AVX2 shipped with Intel's latest processor micro-architecture, codenamed "Haswell".  (Its official name is "4th generation Intel® Core™ ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2

February 25, 2014 Feb 25, 2014 02/25/14

Eric Battalio

Today, we have released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, a go-live Team Foundation Server 2013 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC. This update release preview includes several significant feature additions as well as fixes. You can see full details in the release notes.But you don't have to take my word for it. Check out these posts: On the Visual ...

Why C++?

February 21, 2014 Feb 21, 2014 02/21/14

Eric Battalio

A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to share a few scenarios where C++ really matters to an internal audience from the field. No demo code or sample projects were reviewed, just the scenarios and first-hand examples.Why C++? Do you agree with these scenarios? Did I miss one? Do you have detailed examples for any of these ...

Winter ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report

February 18, 2014 Feb 18, 2014 02/18/14

Eric Battalio

Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA:The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in last summer's comment ballot for the upcoming C++14 standard. We also began comment processing for the recent corresponding ballot for the File ...

The Old New C++ Thing

February 14, 2014 Feb 14, 2014 02/14/14

Eric Battalio

I've spent many hours reading articles on Raymond Chen's blog, The Old New Thing. It is one of the most popular blogs on MSDN with content ranging from concerts at the Seattle Symphony to Win32 and marriage and native programming. Included are a number of interesting articles with, on or about C++.Here is a small, curated selection: The...

Ghost of VCBlog Posts Past

February 11, 2014 Feb 11, 2014 02/11/14

Eric Battalio

You don't need to call Ghostbusters. Spend some time (re)reading some great posts from the Visual C++ team blog past. There really are some hidden gems in there! Did your favorite post make this list? If not, share it with us in the comments or recommend new content...

Advanced Developers Conference 2014

February 7, 2014 Feb 7, 2014 02/7/14

Eric Battalio

The Advanced Developers Conference 2014 takes place April 29-30 in Munich. This years sessions will be about modern device apps, debugging, drivers, graphics,cloud services and much more.The conference will host about 200 attendees with a broad range of international speakers including one or two from Microsoft. It is a great conference for ...