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Video Introduction to the STL, Part 2

July 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010 07/22/10

Visual CPP Team

The second part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available. This part covers the STL's associative containers and the erase-remove idiom. It assumes that you've watched Part 1. More parts are on their way! Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see. Stephan T. ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 1

July 2, 2010 Jul 2, 2010 07/2/10

Visual CPP Team

I recently recorded the first part of a video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library. It assumes familiarity with C++, but begins with the STL basically from scratch. Channel 9 hooked up my laptop so I could write, compile, and execute code as I went along. Check it out here: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/...

STL Performance

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I am Mohammad Usman, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently joined the team. In VS 2008 SP1, we invested heavily in our Standard Template Library (STL) implementation by adding TR1 extensions such as shared_ptr, including performance optimizations for things like vectors of shared_ptrs. In...