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Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development in organizations like yours. If you have 15 minutes (maybe less), I would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts in our survey at https://aka...

I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other languages and tool were more in demand for the projects I worked on so I gradually moved away from native development and lost touch with the C++ story. It...

This is the second installment in the "In The Community" series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet James McNellis, a developer on the Visual C++ team and community guy. James is a developer on the Visual C++ team, which he joined this past July.  As a member of this team, he builds awesome C++ libraries and is...

We recently requested feedback on native debugging (https://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience (https://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of the written feedback we have received: Look to future posts to share more about each of these surveys.Some links for your considerat...

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 XP: ...

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 porting Vi...

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).

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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 less?C...

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 agnostic dat...