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Deep Dive into NuGet Native (Part One)

June 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013 06/18/13

Garrett Serack, MSFT

Howdy! Today I thought I’d start explaining how NuGet supports C/C++ packages under the covers, and look into how one could (theoretically) manually construct a package without using the CoApp PowerShell tools. As I mentioned before, C/C++ packages built for NuGet didn't require a whole lot of change in NuGet itself—...

NuGet for C++

April 26, 2013 Apr 26, 2013 04/26/13

Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]

The wait is over. NuGet support for C++ projects is here.Quick Links• NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733• CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet packages: http://coapp.org/releases• Some C++ NuGet packages to try out: http://nuget.org/...

Developing Windows Applications in C++ (Articles Series)

July 25, 2011 Jul 25, 2011 07/25/11

Visual CPP Team

We got just published “Developing Windows Applications in C++”, an article series created by C++ Most Valuable Professional Kate Gregory. This material is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn how to write Windows applications. It won’t teach you C++, or how to use Windows as an end user. But if you know C++ and ...

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

June 8, 2011 Jun 8, 2011 06/8/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

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 this ...

Converting An MFC Ribbon To Designer Format

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

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC. In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t help you, however, if you adopted the ribbon user interface with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 15 (Apr 9, 2011)

April 9, 2011 Apr 9, 2011 04/9/11

Visual CPP Team

Read in this issue: Build Related Improvement in VS2010 SP1 The Asynchronous Agents Library (Stroustrup) Famous applications built in C++ The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Automatic Type Deduction _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL - Advanced STL, Part 3 Concurrency Runtime (CRT): The Task Scheduler...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 7 (Feb 12, 2011)

February 12, 2011 Feb 12, 2011 02/12/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? Herb Sutter: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex Entrepreneurial debates: Acquisition interest in my part-time startup Introduction to Expressive C++ Two MS Executives Talk about the C++ Renaissance Go Ask printf() To Behave Predictably...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010

January 6, 2011 Jan 6, 2011 01/6/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Hi! I’m Ale Contenti and I’d like to show you here a session on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010 I presented last November at TechEd Europe, in Berlin. People often wonder how we expect C++ developers to take advantage of the many ALM scenarios enabled in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Today it's ...

Grr… My VC++ Project Is Building Slower in VS2010. What Do I Do Now? (A Step by Step Guide)

January 5, 2011 Jan 5, 2011 01/5/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Hi, my name is Renin John and I work as a Software Development Engineer in Test with the VC++ Project and Build Team. I was involved in testing the Build performance of the VS 2010 IDE and I wanted to give you all an idea about what to expect, and some basic steps you could take if you end up in a situation where your project builds slower...

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