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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available!

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12

Eric Battalio

Today, Soma announced the availability of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1! You can install it either from the download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the "Additional software" section).As promised, you can now use the Visual C++ compiler and libraries to target Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. To target Windows...

Native Development Experience in Windows Embedded Compact 2013

November 14, 2012 Nov 14, 2012 11/14/12

Eric Battalio

In windows embedded compact 2013, we are updating the native developer experience to the latest and greatest experience available via Visual Studio 2012. With this update, we are essentially bringing 2012 native desktop experience to embedded developers. This post details some of the key updates to the experience. Run time updates We are ...

Top 11 Reasons to Visit the Hilo Docs in the MSDN Library

November 12, 2012 Nov 12, 2012 11/12/12

Eric Battalio

Top 11 reasons to vist Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo (Windows): Provides a practical example you can use to kickstart your Windows 8 modern app development. Async programming patterns and tips. Have fun with tiles and splash screens. Example of the repository pattern Page navigation! Working with the Using...

Good Stuff on Channel 9

November 7, 2012 Nov 7, 2012 11/7/12

Eric Battalio

Looking for the C++ Good Stuff? Have you visited Channel 9 lately? Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit" demonstrated several features of Visual Studio useful in game development. It contains the starting point for a basic Direct3D game for the Windows Store. Grab the kit itself at https://...

More Q&A for the C++ AMP book

October 15, 2012 Oct 15, 2012 10/15/12

Eric Battalio

As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP, an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our hard-hitting questions. In this post, Kate answers the same set of questions:Q1. “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or ...

Check out the new C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller

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

Eric Battalio

The C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller is available in print or online from your favorite retailer! What is in it for you? Among other things, you will discover how to: Gain greater code performance using graphics processing units (GPUs) Choose accelerators that enable you to write code for GPUs Apply thread tiles, tile barriers...

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 ...

Casablanca at TechEd Australia

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

Artur Laksberg

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/...

Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++

April 30, 2012 Apr 30, 2012 04/30/12

Visual CPP Team

Our devices are becoming increasingly connected, and at the same time our customers expect the applications running on those devices to be fast and fluid. Asynchrony is important on the client for responsiveness and on the server for scalability.Today we are announcing Casablanca, a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud based client-...

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