Herb's last appearance on C9 was a relatively short chat about C++0x. You wanted more questions so Herb decided that the best way to get the questions you want asked is, well, to have you ask them. Most of the highest user-rated questions were asked and...

For those who haven't seen it yet, Charles Torre interviewed again Mohsen Agsen , Microsoft Technical Fellow who runs the Visual C++ engineering team. Back in February Mohsen and Charles had had a first conversation, when they put forward the notion...

You have lastly read in this blog about the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) [1]. Since yesterday, those who couldn’t attend the AMD Fusion Developer Summit have the chance to watch on demand Herb Sutter’s keynote where C++ AMP...

A while back Microsoft had released security bulletin MS11-025 that addressed a publicly disclosed vulnerability in certain applications built using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library . The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if...

Following the announcement made a day ago about C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) , now Microsoft Research released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta: a programming toolkit for application developers that enables the academic and enthusiast...

Herb Sutter , Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team, got his keynote posted in Channel 9 . He tells more details in his blog .

A few months ago, Herb Sutter told about a keynote he was to delivered today in the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (happening these days). He said by then: “Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety. We know that...

Read in this issue : Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity | Tech·Ed North America 2011 High Performance GPU-Accelerated Games and Technical Applications | PDC 2010 C++ Design Patterns Legend Joins the Visual Studio Team InformIT: A Few...

Erich Gamma will start working this August as a MS Distinguished Engineer. Gamma was lately known for his works in team effectiveness at IBM Rational Team Concert , also associated with the Java language per his key involvement with the Eclipse project...

TechEd 2011 North America took place in Atlanta a few weeks ago. If you missed, its sessions are posted in Channel 9. The one we highlight here, Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity , was delivered by C++ MVP Kate Gregory . If you are...

Hi! My name is Ulzii Luvsanbat and I’m a Senior Test Lead with the Visual C++ team. We’ve recently received multiple bug reports on VC++ 2010 compiler consistently crashing during multi-proc build on Windows XP and XP SP3 OSes. This was...

Read in this issue : Bing Maps Trip Optimizer Now Available on MSDN Developer Samples Channel 9: Stephan T Lavavej - Advanced STL, 5 of n The XML Parsing Article That Should (Not) Be Written! – CodeProject BUILDing a bright future - Somasegar's WebLog...

Last Wednesday, Steven Sinofsky (President of the Windows Division) and Julie Larson-Green (Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience) announced that we’ll be starting a dialog with developers about the next generation of Windows, internally codenamed...

In this 5th part of the advanced series, Stephan T. Lavavej digs into the Boost Library . In his words, it's an open source, super quality, community-driven Standard Template Library (STL) . Stephan will walk you through a sample application from end...