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Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex

January 2, 2014 Jan 2, 2014 01/2/14
Eric Battalio
Welcome to 2014. May all your C++ code run perfectly! Thomas Petchel wanted really to explore the intersection among C++, DirectX, and XAML in the context of a Windows Store app. The result? Weathr, a 3D weather app for windows 8.1. (image) It is a smooth, responsive app that shows weather information for different locations. To run it, ...

Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await

December 20, 2013 Dec 20, 2013 12/20/13
Raman Sharma
As you know we recently released the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP. One of the many features in this CTP is the support for resumable functions and await. In this blog post, I want to touch upon some examples where these features make the experience of programming with asynchronous API much simpler. Example 1 The first example we are...

Developer Activities Survey Results Overview

December 13, 2013 Dec 13, 2013 12/13/13
Eric Battalio
Hi there! A few months ago, some of you took a survey on C++ developer activities, the results of which will be used to hone in on which areas to improve for the next release of Visual Studio. I wanted to take some time to share with you the preliminary results of the survey. Without further ado, out of the 47 tasks included on the survey, ...

Performance++ with Visual C++ 2013

December 6, 2013 Dec 6, 2013 12/6/13
Ankit Asthana
For Visual Studio 2013 we have continued to improve the analysis performed by the Visual C++ compiler so it can produce code that runs faster than before. In this blog we highlight some of the many improvements that Visual Studio 2013 has in store for you. This blog is intended to provide you an overview on all the goodies we have added ...

Visual C++ in 2013 and Beyond – Q&A

December 5, 2013 Dec 5, 2013 12/5/13
Eric Battalio
Did you watch Charles Torre's discussion with Ale Contenti, Tarek Madkour and Herb Sutter at the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch last month? The team answered a number of questions from Charles and the community on topics ranging from refactoring to PEX. In case you missed the video (or missed some of the answers), the questions and answers ...

C++ AMP to target Khronos SPIR and HSAIL

November 21, 2013 Nov 21, 2013 11/21/13
Eric Battalio
The Parallel Programming in Native Code blog recently announced Clang support for C++ AMP via LLVM backend. This is a key milestone in our commitment (as mentioned in Somasegar's blog) to share the C++ AMP specification to all C++ developers, regardless of whether they're using Visual C++ or not. Portability across hardware and platforms is ...

Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013

November 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013 11/19/13
Eric Battalio
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename refactoring in Visual C++ but it never quite made it. We were concerned about scalability, performance and accuracy for different user scenarios. ...

Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP

November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13
Eric Battalio
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in Visual Studio 2012. At that time, and at GoingNative 2013 this year, we promised to keep releasing these CTPs to show our progress towards full C...

Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch is here!

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
Eric Battalio
The worldwide launch of Visual Studio 2013 is today.Join Microsoft executives S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie, and Brian Harry at 7:00am PST for the keynote. Other events will follow throughout the day. Sessions will be recorded and shared later if you can't catch them all live.Visual C++ developers will want to tune in to the live Q&A session...