{"id":36630,"date":"2026-06-25T21:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/?p=36630"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:12:56","slug":"save-the-date-pure-virtual-cpp-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/save-the-date-pure-virtual-cpp-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date: Pure Virtual C++ 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/06\/pvclogo.webp\" alt=\"Pure Virtual C++ logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pure Virtual C++ is back! For the 7th year running, we&#8217;re hosting a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. Whether you joined us back in 2020 when we first launched or you&#8217;re discovering the event for the first time, we&#8217;d love to have you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark your calendar: Tuesday, July 21, 2026, starting at 16:00 UTC (9:00 AM in Seattle\/Los Angeles, 1:00 PM in Buenos Aires, 12:00 AM in Hong Kong).<\/strong> The conference runs approximately 2 hours and will be streamed live on both YouTube and Twitch, so you can watch from anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The full speaker lineup and detailed schedule will be announced in follow-up posts \u2014 stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><div  class=\"d-flex justify-content-center\"><a class=\"cta_button_link btn-primary mb-24\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/reactor\/events\/27359\/?wt.mc_id=blog_27359_webpage_reactor\" target=\"_blank\">Register now<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The conference is completely free. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/reactor\/events\/27359\/?wt.mc_id=blog_27359_webpage_reactor\">Register here<\/a><\/strong> to save your spot and get notified when the schedule goes live.\u00a0Can&#8217;t make it live? All sessions will be available on-demand on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@visualstudio\">Visual Studio YouTube channel<\/a> after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pure Virtual C++ is back for its 7th year! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,1,3929],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-cplusplus","category-pure-virtual-c"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Pure Virtual C++ is back for its 7th year! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36633,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630\/revisions\/36633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}