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New Channel 9 video on the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit now online

May 24, 2013 May 24, 2013 05/24/13
Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]
If you’re interested in DirectX development, head on over to Channel 9, where there’s a new video about the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit.  This time, Roberto Sonnino interviews Gokhan Sengun, who’s created the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app, which is the first known app on the Windows Store that was built using the ...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3

April 11, 2013 Apr 11, 2013 04/11/13
Roberto Sonnino - MSFT
Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re ready to make the last few changes to get this app to run on Windows RT devices and Windows Phone 8.  If you haven&rsquo...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3

April 2, 2013 Apr 2, 2013 04/2/13
Roberto Sonnino - MSFT
A few days ago we talked about how to use the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit to create a simple dice rolling app.  Now we’re going to take the app one step further, by adding some animation.  If you need to catch up, here’s a link to the previous blog post. Let it roll, baby, roll In order to make anything move in a ...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3

March 26, 2013 Mar 26, 2013 03/26/13
Roberto Sonnino - MSFT
As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D dice roller that allows you to roll a 6-sided die by tapping or clicking it. In the process of rolling a number, the die will jump and...
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Hello ARM: Exploring Undefined, Unspecified, and Implementation-defined Behavior in C++

October 25, 2012 Oct 25, 2012 10/25/12
Michael from Redmond
With the introduction of Windows RT for ARM devices, many Windows software developers will be encountering ARM processors for the first time. For the native C++ developer this means the potential for running afoul of undefined, unspecified, or implementation-defined behavior--as defined by the C++ language--that is expressed differently on the...
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C++/CX Part 4 of [n]: Static Member Functions

October 19, 2012 Oct 19, 2012 10/19/12
James McNellis
See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at static member functions and how they are supported by the Windows Runtime. A Windows Runtime reference type (also called a ref class in C++/CX, or a runtime class) ...
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C++/CX Part 3 of [n]: Under Construction

October 5, 2012 Oct 5, 2012 10/5/12
James McNellis
See C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series and a table of contents with links to each article in the series. In this article, we'll take a look at the how runtime classes are constructed. We'll use the following Widget runtime class throughout this article: This type has both a default constructor and a ...
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Project Austin Part 3 of 6: Ink Smoothing

October 4, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 10/4/12
Eric Brumer - MSFT
Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the introduction blog post. This blog post describes how we ...
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Project Austin Part 2 of 6: Page Curling

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12
Eric Brumer - MSFT
Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real-world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the original blog post. The source code for Austin, including the ...

C++/CX Part 2 of [n]: Types That Wear Hats

September 17, 2012 Sep 17, 2012 09/17/12
Visual CPP Team
See C++/CX Part 0 of [N]: An Introduction for an introduction to this series. The hat (^) is one of the most prominent features of C++/CX--it's hard not to notice it when one first sees C++/CX code. So, what exactly is a ^ type? A hat type is a smart pointer type that (1) automatically manages the lifetime of a Windows Runtime object and (2) ...