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...

Image processing is a computational task that lends itself very well to GPU compute scenarios. In many cases the most commonly used algorithms are inherently massively parallel, with each pixel in the image being processed independently from the others...

To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last two blogs I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO ) is all about and a case study which illustrates how PGO is used...

Howdy! My name is Garrett Serack , I'm not actually part of the Visual C++ team--I actually work as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center, which is part of Windows Server. I have a distinctly different...

Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking with MFC will get the following error when run on...

The wait is over. NuGet support for C++ projects is here . Quick Links • NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733 • CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet packages: http://coapp.org/releases...

To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last blog I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO ) is all about with an exercise which involved PGO’izing the NBody...

If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts. These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the command line environment to use particular sets...

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...

PGO is a runtime compiler optimization which leverages profile data collected from running important and performance centric user scenarios to build an optimized version of the application. PGO optimizations have some significant advantage over traditional...

I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. For today's topic I want to blog about a really cool runtime compiler optimization called Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (we on the team call it POGO or PGO for short). PGO...

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...

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...

Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development in organizations like yours. If you have 15 minutes...

Hi, this is Andy Rich from the C++ QA team. Previously , I showed you how you can use the C++ REST API to connect to Live services, but this is just one of many web services that you can use the REST API with. In this blog post, I will walk you through...

The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, debugging, creating and consuming cloud services, performance and much more . Here are a couple session...

Hi. My name is Ofek Shilon and I blog mostly about various VC++ tricks I come by. Today I’d like to explicitly introduce a debugging feature we all use daily but seldom refer to it by name – the native expression evaluator (abbreviated EE...

Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Last week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex ( http://casablanca.codeplex.com ). This blog post will walk you through using the C++ REST SDK to connect...

Welcome back to In the Community, our continuing series focusing on members of the C++ and developer community. This week, meet David Cravey, I cut my teeth on programming in BASIC (GW-BASIC/QBasic), but eventually wanted a language that could let...

The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") has officially been released as an open source project on CodePlex ( http://casablanca.codeplex.com ). We first announced Casablanca as an incubation project on Microsoft's DevLabs back in April of 2012. Since...

Last time, I wrote a C++ program to count words in text files. This time, write some code to calculate the motion of an object as an excuse to create a class, use function pointers and mess with some new containers. Thanks to my colleagues Ale Contenti...

Welcome to In the Community. This week, meet Tom Serface, C++ MVP and longtime Visual C++ user. I have been using VC++ with MFC since it first came out circa 1993 and I saw it demonstrated at a local Software Development show. I've been working for...

Last year, I decided I finally wanted to take the plunge into DirectX development. I'd done a little bit of OpenGL programming several years ago, but no graphics development since then. I bought a few DirectX books, worked through several online tutorials...

In the Community spotlights members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet PJ Naughter, a C++ MVP and prolific C++ developer. Take it away, PJ… PJ has been a C++ MVP since 2007. In his spare time, he runs a personal web site at http...

Part 8 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available. In this part, I covered several topics: why I avoid do-while loops, how C and C++ casts behave and why they're dangerous, what the One Definition Rule is and how...