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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 ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 24 (June 11, 2011)

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

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity | Tech·Ed North America 2011 High Performance GPU-Accelerated Games and Technical Applications | PDC 2010 C++ Design Patterns Legend Joins the Visual Studio Team InformIT: A Few Pedagogical Insights about C++ Teaching: Public Data Members Benign ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 17 (Apr 23, 2011)

April 23, 2011 Apr 23, 2011 04/23/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: [Herb Sutter] Session Announcement: C++ and the GPU… and Beyond [Kate Gregory] Application Restart and Recovery on Windows 7 [Channel 9] Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons [ConcRT blog] The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Rvalue References [Anthony Williams] Picking Patterns for ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 14 (Apr 2, 2011)

April 2, 2011 Apr 2, 2011 04/2/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: Troubleshooting Tips for IntelliSense Slowness The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Lambda Expressions CMapi v1.23 (MFC classes for sending and receiving mail using Simple MAPI) Exception Boundaries: Working With Multiple Error Handling Mechanisms Is it reasonable to use the prefix increment operator...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 13 (Mar 26, 2011)

March 26, 2011 Mar 26, 2011 03/26/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: [Herb Sutter] C++0x: We Have Final Draft International Standard! [Parallel Patterns Library] Building Responsive GUI Applications with PPL Tasks [C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio] Text-to-Speech in C++ [Danny Kalev] Detecting Memory Leaks to Improve Performance [C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio] Checked Iterators [Windows Development] ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 10 (Mar 5, 2011)

March 5, 2011 Mar 5, 2011 03/5/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: Using Tasking to Scale Game Engine Systems C++/CLI IntelliSense in Visual Studio vNext JSON Spirit: A C++ JSON Parser/Generator Implemented with Boost Spirit Determining if a C++ type is convertible to another at compile time Windows 7 Recipe – Taskbar Single Instance Windows Embedded Compact 7 ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 3 (Jan 15, 2011) Is Out

January 15, 2011 Jan 15, 2011 01/15/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

We just released the third issue of The Visual C++ Weekly. For technical reasons, from the original list of articles, there are two that weren’t caught and got lost but we’ll make sure to include them in the fourth issue (to appear next Saturday, January 22). This issue contains an Intel concurrency demo based on the ...

VS2010 SP1 Beta: What’s in It for C++ Developers

December 9, 2010 Dec 9, 2010 12/9/10

Visual CPP Team

As announced two days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander, the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details). The ...

Announcing Hilo

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10

Visual CPP Team

What is Hilo? Project “Hilo” is an effort to tell the story of building high performing, responsive rich Windows applications using C++. We will do this by walking you through our own experience of building some sample applications which we believe provide differentiated user experiences. We will tell you everything from setting up the ...

Windows7 and Visual C++ Developer Resources

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am Sridhar Madhugiri a Developer on the WinC++ team. I have worked in different areas of Visual C++ including Libraries, Code Gen and most recently on the IDE. In this blog entry, I will highlight development resources for new features in Windows 7. Integrating these features in your application can light up your application when run on...

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