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Jumping into C++

January 18, 2013 Jan 18, 2013 01/18/13

Eric Battalio

I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other languages and tool were more in demand for the projects I worked on so I gradually moved away from native development and lost touch with the C++ ...

In The Community: Meet Jeremiah Morrill

January 14, 2013 Jan 14, 2013 01/14/13

Eric Battalio

This is the third installment of "In The Community," a series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet Jeremiah Morrill, MVP, developer and community guy.Jeremiah has been in the software development field for 14 years. Over his career, he has moved between languages, operating systems and products but likes to call...

Friday Miscellany #4

January 11, 2013 Jan 11, 2013 01/11/13

Eric Battalio

 Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity. If you have something to share, send it to me (ebattali@microsoft.com) for potential inclusion in a future miscellany.Happy clicking...

In The Community: Meet James McNellis

January 7, 2013 Jan 7, 2013 01/7/13

Eric Battalio

This is the second installment in the "In The Community" series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet James McNellis, a developer on the Visual C++ team and community guy. James is a developer on the Visual C++ team, which he joined this past July.  As a member of this team, he builds awesome C++ libraries ...

Roaming Settings: Give Us Your Feedback!

January 2, 2013 Jan 2, 2013 01/2/13

Eric Battalio

Let's kick off 2013 with a survey JWe have been researching roaming Visual Studio settings and have a few questions that will help gain insights into what the best experience would be. We have created a survey (https://aka.ms/vsroaming) aimed at understanding Visual Studio settings usage patterns and gathering feedback. The survey should take ...

In the Community: Meet Kenny Kerr

December 17, 2012 Dec 17, 2012 12/17/12

Eric Battalio

Hello. Welcome to the first "in the community" posts spotlighting members of the C++ and/or developer community. Today we meet Kenny Kerr and a Microsoft MVP who graciously agreed to "go first" :)Kenny is a computer programmer with a bias toward Windows and C++. He enjoys writing and teaching developers how to get the most out of Windows with ...

Registration for C++Now 2013 Opens Today!

December 11, 2012 Dec 11, 2012 12/11/12

James McNellis

Registration for the seventh annual C++Now Conference (formerly BoostCon) opens today, and if you're looking for a great C++ conference to attend this year, you should definitely consider C++Now.  I attended last year's conference and it was terrific:  in addition to a splendid program of sessions about a wide variety of ...

Friday Miscellany #3

December 7, 2012 Dec 7, 2012 12/7/12

Eric Battalio

Active in the C++ community? Answering questions, creating demos, sharing code snippets, or hosting a local user group meeting? If you have something to share, send it to me (ebattali@microsoft.com) for potential inclusion in a future miscellany!And now on with the show: And because Murphy was an optimist, share your own laws below or on ...

Casablanca : Give us your feedback!

December 4, 2012 Dec 4, 2012 12/4/12

Sana Mithani

Casablanca: a native library to access the cloud from C++ Take a quick 10 minute break and give us your feedback on Casablanca. The Casablanca team would love to hear what you have to say! We want to know how you are using the libraries and what you like or don’t like about Casablanca. This data can help us improve Casablanca and ...

Friday Miscellany #2

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12

Eric Battalio

We recently requested feedback on native debugging (https://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience (https://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of the written feedback we have received: Look to future posts to share more about each of these surveys.Some links for your ...