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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 • Some C++ NuGet packages to try out: http...

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 of Visual Studio tools, or to use specific versions...

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 to get this app to run on Windows RT devices and...

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 blog post. Let it roll, baby, roll In order...

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 6-sided die by tapping or clicking it. In the process...

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 (maybe less), I would appreciate it if you would...

I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other languages and tool were more in demand for the projects I worked on so I gradually moved away from native...

This is the second installment in the "In The Community" series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. Today we meet James McNellis, a developer on the Visual C++ team and community guy. James is a developer on the Visual C++ team, which he joined this past July. As a member of this...

We recently requested feedback on native debugging ( http://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience ( http://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey ). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of the written feedback we have received: "Listen to the community, solve bugs from Connect. :p...

Today, Soma announced the availability of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1! You can install it either from the download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the "Additional software" section). As promised , you can now use the Visual C++ compiler and libraries to target Windows XP and Windows...

In windows embedded compact 2013, we are updating the native developer experience to the latest and greatest experience available via Visual Studio 2012. With this update, we are essentially bringing 2012 native desktop experience to embedded developers. This post details some of the key updates to the...

Top 11 reasons to vist Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo (Windows) : Provides a practical example you can use to kickstart your Windows 8 modern app development. Async programming patterns and tips . Have fun with tiles and splash screens . Example of...

Looking for the C++ Good Stuff? Have you visited Channel 9 lately? Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit" demonstrated several features of Visual Studio useful in game development. It contains the starting point for a basic Direct3D game for the Windows...

As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP , an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our hard-hitting questions. In this post, Kate answers the same set of questions: Q1. “C++ AMP”...

The C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller is available in print or online from your favorite retailer! What is in it for you? Among other things, you will discover how to: Gain greater code performance using graphics processing units (GPUs) Choose accelerators that enable you to write...

Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. At the end of June, we refreshed the bits for support of Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 RP. Those builds...

A few days ago, our friends and technology enthusiasts John Azariah and Mahesh Krishnan delivered a great presentation on Casablanca at the TechEd Australia. John and Mahesh go deep - PPL tasks, table and blob storage, Metro client, Azure deployment, and of course, lots of great demos. Enjoy: http...

Our devices are becoming increasingly connected, and at the same time our customers expect the applications running on those devices to be fast and fluid. Asynchrony is important on the client for responsiveness and on the server for scalability. Today we are announcing Casablanca , a Microsoft incubation...