C++0x

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 18 (Apr 30, 2011)

April 30, 2011 Apr 30, 2011 04/30/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 16 (Apr 16, 2011)

April 16, 2011 Apr 16, 2011 04/16/11

Visual CPP Team

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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 13 (Mar 26, 2011)

March 26, 2011 Mar 26, 2011 03/26/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 8 (Feb 19, 2011)

February 19, 2011 Feb 19, 2011 02/19/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

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PDC 2010: Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere

February 1, 2011 Feb 1, 2011 02/1/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects. However, they are an essential and enabling sugar that will change the way we will write C++ code more often than most people realize. This talk from last PDC covers what lambda functions are and how to use them effectively, including ...

Herb Sutter: “Coding, like Speaking a Language, Implies that You Think in that Language”

January 18, 2011 Jan 18, 2011 01/18/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Erik Meijer –host of the “Expert to Expert” series in Channel 9- interviews Herb Sutter -an Architect on the VC++ team and chair of the C++ Standards Committee.In this thought-provoking talk, Herb and Erik cover generic programming, function objects, lambdas, futures and argument passing by value vs. by reference, among other...

Making an Exception

December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 12/29/10

Diego Dagum - MSFT

An interesting debate about C++ exceptions took place a few weeks ago in the C++ MVPs discussion list. The trigger was something as innocent and specific as “would you guys just throw std::runtime_exception with some error message string or you define a new exception hierarchy? What’s your opinion on AtlThrow/AtlThrowLastWin32?” But as ...

Staying Current with Visual C++ 2010

December 20, 2010 Dec 20, 2010 12/20/10

Visual CPP Team

A few weeks ago, the 2010 Edition of TechEd Europe took place in Berlin, Germany. C++ MVP Kate Gregory (picture) delivered a session where she shows through demos the latest achievements in the C++arena, especially regarding the upcoming C++0x version of language (scheduled by 2011), its libraries, concurrency and related IDE improvements for ...