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The Magic of Going Native 2012 Starts Today!

February 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012 02/2/12

Visual CPP Team

UPDATE: We are already streaming live!! (image) Are you guys ready? This is the agenda for this event happening during today and tomorrow. Day 1 – C++11 Today Day 2 – C++11 Today and Tomorrow   The event will be available for live streaming and on demand!! We’ll see you then...

Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12

Visual CPP Team

Tim Burrell outlines more of the work done by Security Science & the Visual Studio team.He previously noted that they are updating the on-by-default /GS compiler switch, which provides protection against some memory safety bugs such as buffer overflows. In a new post he provides additional information on those changes.[Go to the article...

GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule

January 18, 2012 Jan 18, 2012 01/18/12

Visual CPP Team

Charles has recently published the agenda for GoingNative 2012 –the first C++ only event done in MS in many years.Great speakers and compelling topics. Take a look here...

Compiler Security Enhancements in Visual Studio 11

December 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011 12/5/11

Visual CPP Team

(image) Tim Burrell (MSEC Security Science Team) just posted a new article in the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) blog.   [Read article here...

Announcing GoingNative 2012 Conference

November 24, 2011 Nov 24, 2011 11/24/11

Visual CPP Team

(image) We know developers are hungry for information about native development. The GoingNative conference  aims to provide current technical information to as many people as possible. Register now! GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true ...

Code Analysis in Visual C++ 11

November 9, 2011 Nov 9, 2011 11/9/11

Visual CPP Team

(image) The Microsoft Security Science team has recently posted a note about Security Development Lifecycle integration as part of the Code Analysis rules coming with the next version of Visual C++. [Read the full post...

Game Debugging in Visual Studio 11

November 8, 2011 Nov 8, 2011 11/8/11

Visual CPP Team

Hi! I am Amit Mohindra, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. We believe Metro style games and graphics-intensive apps present a huge opportunity for developers on new devices such as tablets. The primary API for accessing the full power of the underlying graphics hardware on Windows is DirectX 11 (including Direct3D and Direct2D). ...

GoingNative 3: Marian Luparu answers about C++/CX

October 31, 2011 Oct 31, 2011 10/31/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

(image) C++/CX language design team member Marian Luparu sits in the hot seat to answer some questions (a few from the GoingNative community - thank you!), draw on the whiteboard and demo some code. [Watch the episode in Channel 9...

Try It Now: Use PPL to Produce Windows 8 Asynchronous Operations

October 31, 2011 Oct 31, 2011 10/31/11

Visual CPP Team

There's a new revision of the Concurrency Runtime and Parallel Pattern Library sample pack that demonstrates a convenient way of consuming and producing Windows Runtime asynchronous operations using PPL.Read the announcement at sister blog Parallel Programming in Native Code...

Inside the C++/CX Design

October 20, 2011 Oct 20, 2011 10/20/11

Visual CPP Team

(image) Hello. This is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team. Today, I want to give some insight into the new language extensions, officially called C++/CX, which was designed to support the new API model in Windows 8. If you attended //BUILD/, watched some of the sessions online, or have been playing with the prerelease of...