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Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14
Eric Battalio
Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda: Visual C++ MVP Jochen Kalmbach will be there exploring debugging tools for Windows. Are you attending? Share your thoughts and pictures on Twitter using hashtag #adcpp&...

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14
Eric Battalio
Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda: Visual C++ MVP Jochen Kalmbach will be there exploring debugging tools for Windows. Are you attending? Share your thoughts and pictures on Twitter using hashtag #adcpp&...

BUILD 2014 begins tomorrow, no fooling!

April 1, 2014 Apr 1, 2014 04/1/14
Eric Battalio
** Update 4/2 9am ** Are you watching the keynote live at https://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp?The BUILD conference begins tomorrow. Here are few things you, our loyal Visual C++ blog readers, should know: Stay tuned for more...

DirectX 12

March 21, 2014 Mar 21, 2014 03/21/14
Eric Battalio
For Friday, how about more information about DirectX 12 announced at GDC earlier this week?DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one of the most critical pieces of a game or game engine, and we've redesigned it to be faster and more efficient than ever before. Direct3D 12 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 2013 RC Now Available

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Eric Battalio
A few minutes ago, Soma announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013. Also announced was the Virtual Launch date – November 13th, 2013:The RC release is the next big step toward the release of Visual Studio 2013. Today I am also excited to announce that Visual Studio 2013 ...

Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or statically linking MFC

May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 05/7/13
Eric Battalio
Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking with MFC will get the following error when run on Windows XP:"The procedure entry point InitializeCriticalSectionEx could not be located in the...

Announcing Casablanca refresh

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12
Visual CPP Team
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. Today, we are announcing a “bug-fix” refresh to the Casablanca release. The update can be downloaded from the Casablanca devlabs site....