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Project Austin Part 6 of 6: Storage

George Mileka [MSFT] October 29, 2012 Oct 29, 2012 10/29/12

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) ...

Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering

Jorge Pereira - MSFT October 18, 2012 Oct 18, 2012 10/18/12

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 ...

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

Amit K Agarwal October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 10/11/12

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-...

Project Austin Part 1 of 6: Introduction

Jorge Pereira - MSFT September 20, 2012 Sep 20, 2012 09/20/12

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 ...

VC11 ISO C++ Concurrency Tour in March Issue of MSDN Mag

Diego Dagum - MSFT March 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012 03/16/12

Greetings!! I am Diego Dagum, Community Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. I recently got an article published in the current issue of MSDN Magazine about the ISO C++11 concurrency features implemented in Visual C++ 11. It’s a 101-level journey through standardized features like: [Read &...

Announcing Wrox’s Professional C++, 2nd Edition

Visual CPP Team October 10, 2011 Oct 10, 2011 10/10/11

Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “Professional C++, Second Edition”. This second edition includes the latest C++ standard, C++11, and is based on the great first edition written by Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper. The book is published...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 24 (June 11, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFT June 11, 2011 Jun 11, 2011 06/11/11

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Herb Sutter Shares Perspectives on the New C++ Standard

Visual CPP Team May 4, 2011 May 4, 2011 05/4/11

Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. I’m back with an interview made last week with Herb Sutter, Principal Architect on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft and chairman of the ISO committee which recently approved the final technical changes to the C++0x standard – the publication of which is expected this summer. Go...

Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons

Visual CPP Team April 22, 2011 Apr 22, 2011 04/22/11

Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9. I recently interviewed Boris Jabes, a fun Visual C++ Program Manager guy to talk to. After a brief discussion of IntelliSense in VC++ –Boris has the distinction of being the first guy to share the news about the removal of C++/CLI IntelliSense support in VC10, we move on to ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 14 (Apr 2, 2011)

Diego Dagum - MSFT April 2, 2011 Apr 2, 2011 04/2/11

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