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What Are SCARY Iterators?

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Hi there! I’m Diego Dagum, a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As Stephan announced last September when Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was released, our STL implementation comes with SCARY iterators. On Stephan’s words, ”(…) as permitted but not required by the C++11 Standard, SCARY ...

C++ Design Patterns Legend Joins the Visual Studio Team

June 10, 2011 Jun 10, 2011 06/10/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Erich Gamma will start working this August as a MS Distinguished Engineer.Gamma was lately known for his works in team effectiveness at IBM Rational Team Concert, also associated with the Java language per his key involvement with the Eclipse project. However, he was first known for leading the list of authors of the best-selling ...

Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Book in Progress)

January 26, 2011 Jan 26, 2011 01/26/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) The patterns & practices group is writing a new guide that will introduce Visual C++ programmers to patterns for including parallelism in their applications. Examples of these patterns are parallel loops, parallel tasks and data aggregation with map-reduce. Each pattern has its own chapter. Each chapter includes a description of ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 4 (Jan 22, 2010)

January 22, 2011 Jan 22, 2011 01/22/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Paperli.PaperWidget.Show({ pid: 'visualc/news', width: 200, background: '#000666' }) Greetings!! The 4th issue of The Visual C++ Weekly is out there. This issue starts with an article due to C++ MVP Marc Gregoire on an extension that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta brings to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to allow animations. ...