May, 2011

Read in this issue : Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data DirectCompute Lecture Series 230: GPU Accelerated Physics InformIT: Top Ten Tips for Correct C++ Coding ACCU 2011: Michael Feathers On Our Ability To Do Much Mixed...

Hi, this is Jim Springfield . I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. In any concurrent application, protecting data from concurrent access is extremely important. There are many primitives that can be used for this, such as critical sections...

Read in this issue : ALM for C++ in Visual Studio vNext Provide Your Custom Class Name to your MFC Application InformIT: Telltale Signs of a Failed Software Project, Part I DirectCompute Lecture Series 210: GPU Optimizations and Performance ACCU 2011...

As a follow up of the recent interview that Charles Torre (Channel 9) made to Herb Sutter (Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team), they want the audience –in other words you guys- to send candidate questions. Herb made a call in his blog...

Greetings!! I’m Rong Lu , Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. It’s been extremely exciting in Atlanta at TechEd North America 2011 ! Terry Leeper, Diego Dagum and I had a chance to be at TechEd and joined the announcement of Application...

Hi, I’m Charles Torre , Sr. Technographer with Channel 9 . One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams . ALM tools are critical for planning...

Read in this issue : Boris Jabes: Rock Hard: C++ Evolving Raymond Chen: A function pointer cast is a bug waiting to happen Viva64: How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing. Part N2 ACCU 2011: Scott Meyers on Move Semantics, Perfect Forwarding...

Hi, I’m Boris Jabes , senior program manager lead on the Visual C++ team. Last month I delivered a session at DevDays 2011 Netherlands, taking a fresh perspective on C++0x (or should I say, C++11) and the power of modern native programming. Unlike...

Read in this issue : Converting An MFC Ribbon To Designer Format (ACCU 2011) Farewell to Disks: Efficient Processing of Obstinate Data ConcRT Sample Pack: Download today DirectCompute Lecture Series 110: Memory Patterns (Code Project) A Notepad for Regular...

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner , a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC . In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t...

Hi, I’m Charles Torre , Sr. Technographer with Channel 9 . I’m back with an interview made last week with Herb Sutter, Principal Architect on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft and chairman of the ISO committee which recently approved the final...