March, 2011

Recently Mohsen & Craig talked about a Renaissance within C++ development and Tony talked rebuilding our developer communication around C++, both of these videos touched on the subject of providing a more real world pragmatic discussion around why...

If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available...

Hi, my name is Andy Rich and I’m a QA on the C++ front-end compiler. The IntelliSense system in Visual Studio 2010 comes with far greater power, flexibility, and accuracy, but these improvements come at the cost of greater complexity. The goal of...

Hi, my name is Amit Mohindra and I’m Program Manager with the MS Visual C++ team. Recently we were made aware of a change in SP1 which affected the signing process for assemblies (C++/CLI assemblies) as part of the following forum post: http...

Read in this issue : [Herb Sutter] C++0x: We Have Final Draft International Standard! [Parallel Patterns Library] Building Responsive GUI Applications with PPL Tasks [C++ MVP Giovanni Dicanio] Text-to-Speech in C++ [Danny Kalev] Detecting...

An update to the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Windows SDK 7.1) is now available. This update addresses the issue where Visual C++ Compilers and libraries that are installed with the Windows SDK are removed when Visual Studio 2010 Service...

Greetings! I'm David Blaikie , Software Design Engineer at Microsoft and guest blogger here on VCBlog . I work in the Windows product group , writing test infrastructure tools in C++. One of the luxuries of the codebases I work in is that they are relatively...

Charles Torre, our C++ fan in Channel 9, just posted an interview he made a few days ago to Tony Goodhew : a Microsoft veteran in the Developer Tools Division who has returned home to his roots in VC++ after working as a product manager on VC6. One of...

Hi, my name is Ade Miller and I’m Principal Program Manager with the Microsoft Technical Computing group. Last fall we shipped Parallel Programming for Microsoft .NET and immediately started working on a companion version of the book for C++...

Read in this issue : Using Tasking to Scale Game Engine Systems C++/CLI IntelliSense in Visual Studio vNext JSON Spirit: A C++ JSON Parser/Generator Implemented with Boost Spirit Determining if a C++ type is convertible to another at compile time Windows...

Part 2 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available. In this part, I walk through how our STL algorithms equal() and copy() use template metaprogramming to detect when it's safe to call memcmp()...

Read in this issue : [Patterns and Practices] Parallel Programming with MS Visual C++ (online guidance) [CodeProject] 3-D Software Rendering Engine – Part I [Viva64] Lessons on Development of 64-bit Applications [Vlad Lazarenko] C++ Exception Handling...

Read in this issue : [MS Parallel Programming] Sorting in PPL [Visual C++ team] Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability [John Socha-Leialoha] C++/CLI to C++ Tips and Tricks [Thomas Becker] C++ Rvalue References Explained...

A few days ago we posted a video where C++ MVP Kate Gregory talked about her community distinction, her motivations, thoughts about the role C++ plays in these days of computer programming, etc. Charles Torre , our interviewer in Channel 9 , kept talking...

Hi, I’m Charles Torre , Sr. Technographer with Channel 9 . One of my goals is to make sure C++ has first class status on Channel 9. Make no mistake, the C++ Renaissance will be televised. :) I’ve recently been posting interviews on C9...

The 2011 MVP Global Summit took place a few weeks ago at MS headquarters. MVP stands for most valuable professional , a distinction that Microsoft assign to some prominent community personalities for their passion and dedication in helping the community...