Hello, I’m Pat Brenner , a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I am the primary developer working on the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) . In Visual Studio 2010, the size of statically-linked MFC applications grew substantially. We’ve gotten...

This month, we enter the third decade of C++ at Microsoft. It was twenty years ago, in February of 1992, that we released our first C++ compiler: Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. Before then, we already worked with several of the C++ “preprocessor”...

Hello, My name is Vikas Bhatia and I am a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team. We are conducting a survey to see the relative urgency of C++11 features to you, the developer. C++11 conformance is important to us. We intend to implement the C++11...

UPDATE: We are already streaming live!! Are you guys ready? This is the agenda for this event happening during today and tomorrow. Day 1 – C++11 Today [Keynote ] 9:30-11:00AM PST (1730 - 1900 UTC) -- Bjarne Stroustrup : C++11 Style...

Tim Burrell outlines more of the work done by Security Science & the Visual Studio team. He previously noted that they are updating the on-by-default /GS compiler switch, which provides protection against some memory safety bugs such as buffer...

Charles has recently published the agenda for GoingNative 2012 –the first C++ only event done in MS in many years. Great speakers and compelling topics. Take a look here .

Tim Burrell (MSEC Security Science Team) just posted a new article in the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) blog. [Read article here]

We know developers are hungry for information about native development . The GoingNative conference aims to provide current technical information to as many people as possible. Register now! GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour technical event for those...

The Microsoft Security Science team has recently posted a note about Security Development Lifecycle integration as part of the Code Analysis rules coming with the next version of Visual C++. [Read the full post]

Hi! I am Amit Mohindra , a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. We believe Metro style games and graphics-intensive apps present a huge opportunity for developers on new devices such as tablets. The primary API for accessing the full power of the...

C++/CX language design team member Marian Luparu sits in the hot seat to answer some questions (a few from the GoingNative community - thank you!), draw on the whiteboard and demo some code. [Watch the episode in Channel 9]

There's a new revision of the Concurrency Runtime and Parallel Pattern Library sample pack that demonstrates a convenient way of consuming and producing Windows Runtime asynchronous operations using PPL. Read the announcement at sister blog Parallel...

Hello. This is Jim Springfield , an architect on the Visual C++ team. Today, I want to give some insight into the new language extensions, officially called C++/CX , which was designed to support the new API model in Windows 8. If you attended //BUILD...

In a recent Going Native episode in Channel 9, Charles (Torre) and I interviewed Mahmoud Saleh , the software engineer who keeps the C Runtime library. Now Mahmoud prepared for you a 1-hour lecture on some of the CRT topics like Memory leak detection...

Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “ Professional C++, Second Edition ”. This second edition includes the latest C++ standard,...

We're back with the third installment of C9::GoingNative . At the recent //BUILD conference, we introduced a series of technologies targeting the upcoming version of the Windows platform. One of those consists in some extensions to the C++ language...

The Concurrency Runtime team is working on the next generation of the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that will help you consume asynchronous operations in your apps using a simpler development model than the one Windows 8 has built-in as part of its...

Hi, I’m Raman Sharma , a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As seen a few weeks ago at //BUILD , in the next version of Visual Studio you’ll be able to create Metro style app with Javascript. But this doesn't mean that Javascript...

There's a new C++ Standard and a new version of Visual C++, and it's time to reveal what features from the former we're implementing in the latter! Terminology notes : During its development, the new C++ Standard was (optimistically) referred to as...

Hi! I am Amit Mohindra, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team . Earlier in the month my colleague Sumit Kumar had talked about some of the exciting IDE features in the next version of Visual Studio . Today I will just add to that list a few more features...

Greetings! Charles Torre and I came back with the second episode of Channel 9 Going Native –which is actually episode 1, considering that C++, as a C-like language, starts indexing from 0. This time we follow up from a recent article that my...

Hi! I am Sumit Kumar , a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today I will talk to you about some of the exciting new IDE functionality in the next version of Visual Studio that will make you, the C++ developer, more productive with your daily code...

GoingNative is a new, monthly show on Channel 9 dedicated to native development and native developers, with an emphasis on modern C++. In our inaugural episode, we keep things light and easy as we introduce you to what we're doing, why we're doing it...

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...

In Part 6 of my second video lecture series focused on the Standard Template Library, I demonstrate how to write a "pretty printer" for STL containers that's capable of formatting a vector<tuple<int, string, int>> as [(1, "ten", 100), (2,...