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Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering

October 18, 2012 Oct 18, 2012 10/18/12
Jorge Pereira - MSFT
When we designed the user experience of Austin, we spent quite some time thinking about the different page views and layouts, and how to transition between them.  We wanted to create an immersive experience where the user can manipulate and navigate Austin's pages in an intuitive way; pages zoom in and out in 3D with pinch gestures, and ...

Project Austin Part 4 of 6: C++ AMP acceleration

October 11, 2012 Oct 11, 2012 10/11/12
Amit K Agarwal
Hello, I am Amit Agarwal, a developer on the C++ AMP team. C++ AMP is a new technology available in Visual Studio 2012 that enables C++ developers to make the best use of available heterogeneous computing resources in their applications from within the same C++ sources and the VS IDE they use for programming the CPU. Austin is a digital note-...

C++ AMP Resources

August 31, 2012 Aug 31, 2012 08/31/12
Visual CPP Team
Hopefully by now you have heard of C++ AMP. C++ AMP is a modern C++ library (plus a key new language feature) that ships with Visual Studio 2012 and it lets you take advantage of accelerators, such as the GPU, for compute purposes. Think data parallelism, but at a massive level, accelerated by powerful hardware. If you need more motivation on ...

Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL)

September 27, 2011 Sep 27, 2011 09/27/11
Visual CPP Team
The Concurrency Runtime team is working on the next generation of the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that will help you consume asynchronous operations in your apps using a simpler development model than the one Windows 8 has built-in as part of its Windows Runtime.In that sense, they recently published a blog post explaining the rationale ...

Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast Code Using GPUs and More, with C++ AMP

June 17, 2011 Jun 17, 2011 06/17/11
Visual CPP Team
You have lastly read in this blog about the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) [1]. Since yesterday, those who couldn’t attend the AMD Fusion Developer Summit have the chance to watch on demand Herb Sutter’s keynote where C++ AMP was introduced and some demos were shown [2].Now Daniel Moth's C++ AMP ...

TechEd 2011: Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity

June 8, 2011 Jun 8, 2011 06/8/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) TechEd 2011 North America took place in Atlanta a few weeks ago. If you missed, its sessions are posted in Channel 9. The one we highlight here, Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity, was delivered by C++ MVP Kate Gregory. If you are a follower of this blog you may already know Kate. The thing I liked most about ...

Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data

May 26, 2011 May 26, 2011 05/26/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, this is Jim Springfield. I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. In any concurrent application, protecting data from concurrent access is extremely important. There are many primitives that can be used for this, such as critical sections, mutexes, reader-writer locks, etc. There are also some newer high-level approaches ...