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Sep 28, 2015
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Debug Visualizers in Visual C++ 2015

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

When debugging your native applications, it is often useful to view the values of the objects in memory in a specific way, whether that be with custom string formatting, or even performing an operation on the data to make it more meaningful and easy to interpret.  Since VS2012, Visual Studio had provided the .natvis visualizer format for decla...

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Jan 29, 2015
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Native Memory Diagnostics in CTP 5

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

The Visual Studio Memory Usage tool is now selected by default in VS2015 CTP 5.  When you first debug a native app in CTP 5, the Diagnostic Tools window will launch and show both the Memory Usage and CPU Usage tools since they are both checked by default.  For more information on the Diagnostic Tools window and other tools, please consult...

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Nov 21, 2014
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Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and also in the earlier CTP releases of Visual Studio 2015, we released a memory diagnostic tool that allowed developers to take heap snapshots of their application and then examine the heap contents upon terminating their application.  The initial release supported viewing managed and native objects in the heap, and ...

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Jun 4, 2014
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Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the next maj...

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Jun 4, 2014
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Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the next maj...

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Mar 11, 2013
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Advanced Developers Conference 2013: C++

Eric Battalio
Eric Battalio

The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, debugging, creating and consuming cloud services, performance and much more. Here are a couple session descriptions cribbed from the ADC site to whet your appetite: There is still plenty of time to s...

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Jan 24, 2013
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After the Jump

Eric Battalio
Eric Battalio

This is a follow up to Jumping Into C++, a first-hand account of my experiences writing my first modern C++ application. It was a simple exercise that turned out to be not so simple and much more educational than I imagined thanks to the community.Thank you.And now, in no particular order, a few thoughts.About not using regular expressions. I avoid...

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Oct 29, 2012
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Project Austin Part 6 of 6: Storage

George Mileka [MSFT]
George Mileka [MSFT]

Hi, my name is George Mileka. I’m a developer on the C++ Libraries team. I have been working on the Project Code Name Austin for many months with Jorge, Eric, and Alan. To learn more about what the Project Code Name Austin is, you can read this great post by Jorge Pereira. For Project Austin, we have used ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) as th...

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Oct 18, 2012
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Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering

Jorge Pereira - MSFT
Jorge Pereira - MSFT

When we designed the user experience of Austin, we spent quite some time thinking about the different page views and layouts, and how to transition between them.  We wanted to create an immersive experience where the user can manipulate and navigate Austin's pages in an intuitive way; pages zoom in and out in 3D with pinch gestures, and the ca...

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Oct 11, 2012
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Project Austin Part 4 of 6: C++ AMP acceleration

Amit K Agarwal
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-taking...

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