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do-while, casts, ODR, variadic templates – Core C++, Part 8

February 7, 2013 Feb 7, 2013 02/7/13

Part 8 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available. In this part, I covered several topics: why I avoid do-while loops, how C and C++ casts behave and why they're dangerous, what the One Definition Rule is and how to follow it, and how my toy program to sort arrays with variadic templates works.For ...

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://...

Template Argument Deduction – Core C++, Part 2

July 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012 07/16/12

Visual CPP Team

Part 2 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available. In this part, I took an hour to explore template argument deduction, including what "non-deduced contexts" are - and how they can be used to your advantage! For reference, here are all of the links to my video lectures, plus my GoingNative ...

C9::GoingNative: Visual C++ Upcoming IDE Demos, a CRT Talk and More!!

August 29, 2011 Aug 29, 2011 08/29/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Greetings! Charles Torre and I came back with the second episode of Channel 9 Going Native –which is actually episode 1, considering that C++, as a C-like language, starts indexing from 0. This time we follow up from a recent article that my colleague and friend Sumit Kumar (Program Manager in the Visual C++ team) wrote last week about ...

Container Pretty Printer – Advanced STL, Part 6

July 11, 2011 Jul 11, 2011 07/11/11

Visual CPP Team

In Part 6 of my second video lecture series focused on the Standard Template Library, I demonstrate how to write a "pretty printer" for STL containers that's capable of formatting a vector<tuple<int, string, int>> as [(1, "ten", 100), (2, "twenty", 200), (3, "thirty", 300)]. It's easy to use, with the default syntax being ...

Herb Sutter Shares Perspectives on the New C++ Standard

May 4, 2011 May 4, 2011 05/4/11

Visual CPP Team

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...

_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL – Advanced STL, Part 3

April 5, 2011 Apr 5, 2011 04/5/11

Visual CPP Team

In Part 3 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation, I explain how our powerful correctness checks in debug mode work. In VC10, they're controlled by the macro _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL, which supersedes VC8 and VC9's more confusing _SECURE_SCL and _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING macros. Additionally, ...

Algorithm Optimizations – Advanced STL, Part 2

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11

Visual CPP Team

Part 2 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available. In this part, I walk through how our STL algorithms equal() and copy() use template metaprogramming to detect when it's safe to call memcmp() and memmove(), which are potentially faster than the generic loops. In Part 1's ...

shared_ptr – Advanced STL, Part 1

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

Visual CPP Team

Part 1 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available. In this part, I explain how some of shared_ptr's magic works, including type erasure and make_shared<T>()'s optimizations that save both space and time. This advanced series assumes that you're familiar with C++ and the...

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...

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