{"id":2583,"date":"2012-02-18T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2012\/02\/18\/c-precon-at-tech-ed-2012-orlando-and-amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:41:49","slug":"c-precon-at-tech-ed-2012-orlando-and-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/c-precon-at-tech-ed-2012-orlando-and-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"C++ Precon at Tech Ed 2012 &#8211; Orlando and Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At both <a href=\"http:\/\/northamerica.msteched.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tech Ed North America 2012<\/strong><\/a> (June 11th-14th) and <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.msteched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tech Ed Europe 2012<\/strong><\/a> (June 26th-29th) there will be a C++ all day preconference! The title is <b><u>C++ in 2012: Modern, Readable, Safe, Fast.<\/u><\/b> Our <strong>C++ MVP <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/europe.msteched.com\/PreConSpeakers#gregory\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kate Gregory<\/strong><\/a> will deliver it and here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>C++ is gaining momentum as a development language, so whether you&rsquo;ve never used C++ or stopped using it a decade ago, it may be time to brush up on your skills. With a new standard release providing new keywords and capabilities, C++ is a&nbsp; featured language for many of the new Microsoft technologies and enables some amazing speed-ups of your application using libraries like PPL and C++ AMP. What&rsquo;s more, Visual Studio offers tools to native developers that have only been available for managed developers in earlier versions. This all-day session will show you what all the fuss is about and give you the skills you need to understand the advantages of C++ today and how to start applying those benefits to your application.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are three main categories of attendees who would enjoy this session:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&rsquo;s perfect for <strong>those who used C++ a long time ago and need a refresher<\/strong>, a way to catch up with all that has happened to C++ in the last ten years. <\/li>\n<li>Developers who have never written a line of C++ code, but are <strong>solid in C# or Java <\/strong>will know the basic syntax (if, while, etc) and be able to follow this session and see why there is so much excitement around C++ these days. <\/li>\n<li><strong>C++ developers who are not using Visual Studio and not developing for Windows<\/strong> can come and see how their C++ skills will translate to these technologies and how quickly they can be productive on a new platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This preconference is technical and has lots of code in it. It&rsquo;s not an &ldquo;introduction to C++&rdquo; that starts from scratch. It&rsquo;s about providing the inspiration you need to start using particular features and starting writing modern C++. While you&rsquo;re at TechEd, you can also attend some C++ breakout sessions to go deeper into particular technologies and tools that caught your interest. If you watched the sessions from the <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/GoingNative\/GoingNative-2012\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GoingNative 2012<\/strong><\/a> conference, and could follow them, you know how much C++ programming has changed this century. If not, and you&rsquo;re curious what the buzz is about, come and find out! It&rsquo;s a great way to start your TechEd experience, June 10<sup>th<\/sup> in Orlando or June 25<sup>th<\/sup> in Amsterdam. We&rsquo;ll see you there!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At both Tech Ed North America 2012 (June 11th-14th) and Tech Ed Europe 2012 (June 26th-29th) there will be a C++ all day preconference! The title is C++ in 2012: Modern, Readable, Safe, Fast. Our C++ MVP Kate Gregory will deliver it and here&#8217;s the abstract: C++ is gaining momentum as a development language, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At both Tech Ed North America 2012 (June 11th-14th) and Tech Ed Europe 2012 (June 26th-29th) there will be a C++ all day preconference! 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