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We got just published “ Developing Windows Applications in C++ ”, an article series created by C++ Most Valuable Professional Kate Gregory . This material is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn how to write Windows applications. It won’t teach you C++, or how to use Windows as...

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 Pedagogical Insights about C++ Teaching: Public...

Read in this issue : [Herb Sutter] Session Announcement: C++ and the GPU… and Beyond [Kate Gregory] Application Restart and Recovery on Windows 7 [Channel 9] Boris Jabes on Game Development and Other Demons [ConcRT blog] The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Rvalue References [Anthony Williams...

Read in this issue : Troubleshooting Tips for IntelliSense Slowness The Concurrency Runtime and Visual C++ 2010: Lambda Expressions CMapi v1.23 (MFC classes for sending and receiving mail using Simple MAPI) Exception Boundaries: Working With Multiple Error Handling Mechanisms Is it reasonable to use...

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 Memory Leaks to Improve Performance [C++ MVP...

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 7 Recipe – Taskbar Single Instance Windows Embedded...

We just released the third issue of The Visual C++ Weekly . For technical reasons, from the original list of articles, there are two that weren’t caught and got lost but we’ll make sure to include them in the fourth issue (to appear next Saturday, January 22). This issue contains an Intel...

As announced two days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander , the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download ! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “ go live ” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with...

What is Hilo? Project “ Hilo ” is an effort to tell the story of building high performing, responsive rich Windows applications using C++. We will do this by walking you through our own experience of building some sample applications which we believe provide differentiated user experiences. We will tell...

Hi, I am Sridhar Madhugiri a Developer on the WinC++ team. I have worked in different areas of Visual C++ including Libraries, Code G en and most recently on the IDE. In this blog entry , I will highlight development resources for new features in Windows 7. Integrating these features in your application...

Hello, My name is Damien Watkins, and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today, I thought I would post the “overview script” for my TechEd Europe session – so those who could not attend can try it out for themselves at home. My talk was about the new MFC features we have added in Visual...

Several customers have encountered the following error while using the Visual C++ compiler on Windows 7: fatal error C1859: 'stdafx.pch' unexpected precompiled header error, simply rerunning the compiler might fix this problem This error manifests under the following conditions: · The...