October, 2011

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...