C++ Team Blog

Project Austin Part 4 of 6: C++ AMP acceleration

October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 10/11/12

Amit K Agarwal

Hello, I am Amit Agarwal, a developer on the C++ AMP team. C++ AMP is a new technology available in Visual Studio 2012 that enables C++ developers to make the best use of available heterogeneous computing resources in their applications from within the same C++ sources and the VS IDE they use for programming the CPU. Austin is a digital note-...

Windows XP Targeting with C++ in Visual Studio 2012

October 8, 2012 Oct 8, 2012 10/8/12

Ibrahim Damlaj

Background In June, we announced enhanced targeting for Windows XP using the Visual Studio 2012 C++ compiler and libraries. This feature has been included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. You can download it from here. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the Windows XP targeting experience, the level of C++ runtime support...

C++/CX Part 3 of [n]: Under Construction

October 5, 2012 Oct 5, 2012 10/5/12

James McNellis

See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at the how runtime classes are constructed. We'll use the following runtime class throughout this article: This type has both a default constructor and a constructor...

Project Austin Part 3 of 6: Ink Smoothing

October 4, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 10/4/12

Eric Brumer - MSFT

Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the introduction blog post. This blog post describes how we ...

C++ Runtime for Windows 8 Store apps

September 28, 2012 Sep 28, 2012 09/28/12

Raman Sharma

Background If you have shipped software built using Visual C++, you probably have had to think about deploying C++ Runtime DLLs.  If your binaries dynamically link to the C++ Libraries, then your desktop apps probably deploy C++ Runtime using VCRedist, merge modules or by copying C++ Runtime DLLs alongside your own binaries.  ...

Project Austin Part 2 of 6: Page Curling

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12

Eric Brumer - MSFT

Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real-world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the original blog post. The source code for Austin, including the ...

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2012

September 25, 2012 Sep 25, 2012 09/25/12

Visual CPP Team

Visual Studio 2012 includes several new features for developing and debugging applications that use DirectX.  Here are links to references and resources so you can get started with these new features. Getting StartedYou can write and build apps that use DirectX with Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 or Visual Studio ...

Download Today: Refreshed Casablanca Bits Available

September 24, 2012 Sep 24, 2012 09/24/12

Artur Laksberg

Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. At the end of June, we refreshed the bits for support of Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 RP. Those builds are now rather long in the tooth, and ...

Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction

September 20, 2012 Sep 20, 2012 09/20/12

Jorge Pereira - MSFT

My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a developer at Microsoft.  For the past few months I've been working on a Windows 8 app along with a small team of developers from the Visual C++ team, we call it Project Code Name Austin. Austin is a digital note-taking app for Windows 8. You can add pages to your notebook, delete them, or move ...

Casablanca at TechEd Australia

September 19, 2012 Sep 19, 2012 09/19/12

Artur Laksberg

(image) A few days ago, our friends and technology enthusiasts John Azariah and Mahesh Krishnan delivered a great presentation on Casablanca at the TechEd Australia. John and Mahesh go deep - PPL tasks, table and blob storage, Metro client, Azure deployment, and of course, lots of great demos. Enjoy: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd...