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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): And the number one reason? If you have ideas for future top 11's, share it on Facebook, Twitter or the comments below.*edited 11/13/2012, fixed the link to the article (https://aka.ms/hilocpp-doc...

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? And in case you missed it: *spoiler,marketing*Do you like Visual C++? Like us on Facebook (and post something)!Thanks...

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: I was able to corner Ade Miller long enough to answer a few questions:Q1: “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or less?“A hardware ...

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-...