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...

Read in this issue : Advanced STL, Part 4 Concurrency Runtime: Transporting Exceptions between Threads DirectCompute Lecture Series 101: Introduction to DirectCompute (C++ and Beyond) Adventures in Perfect Forwarding (InformIT) Ten Techniques to Reduce...

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...

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...

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...

The Concurrency Runtime team is working on the next generation of the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that will help you consume asynchronous operations in your apps using a simpler development model than the one Windows 8 has built-in as part of its...

In Part 6 of my second video lecture series focused on the Standard Template Library, I demonstrate how to write a "pretty printer" for STL containers that's capable of formatting a vector<tuple<int, string, int>> as [(1, "ten", 100), (2,...

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...

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]

Tim Burrell (MSEC Security Science Team) just posted a new article in the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) blog. [Read article here]

Charles has recently published the agenda for GoingNative 2012 –the first C++ only event done in MS in many years. Great speakers and compelling topics. Take a look here .

Tim Burrell outlines more of the work done by Security Science & the Visual Studio team. He previously noted that they are updating the on-by-default /GS compiler switch, which provides protection against some memory safety bugs such as buffer...

PGO is a runtime compiler optimization which leverages profile data collected from running important and performance centric user scenarios to build an optimized version of the application. PGO optimizations have some significant advantage over traditional...

Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity. It’s all about performance: Using Visual C++ 2012 to make the best use of your hardware...

Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity. From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers , a C++ template library that implements B-tree containers...

Microsoft is working to provide developers the next experience with local documentation. Last December, the Library team released the SP1 beta version of its Microsoft Help Viewer for Visual Studio. Additionally, there are a number of changes and improvement...

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...

Visual Studio 2010 has some enhancements that provide an easy way to get faster builds on a multiprocessor computer through parallelism. Dan Moseley a Lead Developer on MSBuild has written a blog on the C++ Build Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010 . ...

David LeBlanc and Michael Howard literally wrote the book on “ Writing Secure Code ”. David has also developed the SafeInt class, a template class that performs “checked” operations on integer types (with a name like SafeInt what else would you expect...

Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the Visual C++ team . D uring the development of Visual Studio 2010 he has been feverously working on converting our build system to target MS Build as the build infrastructure for Visual C++ 2010 Solutions/Projects....

Thanks to a recent VC Blog post by Hongwei Qi , you already know that we have worked on our /GS switch for VS2010. You can already try it out with the VS2010 Beta 1 too. Recently Charles Torre from Channel 9 stopped by and spoke with one of our Channel...

Join our slow chat on Visual C++ During the week of June 19 th , the Visual C++ team will be hosting a slow chat titled Visual C++: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow on CodeGuru ( www.codeguru.com ). A slow chat takes place in a discussion forum over a...

Boris Jabes – a program manager on the Visual C++ IDE team – has posted impressions of Tech Ed 2006 on his blog. He shares insights into what went on at the conference and the issues customers brought up. Check it out here . Thanks, The Visual C++...

Hello my name is Steven Toscano and I work on the Visual C++ IDE team. Recently we had a customer visit that exposed a common problem people are seeing when migrating to VS2005 from older versions of VS. You will encounter this problem if you have defined...

This is the second time I’ve experienced the “end game” of a product cycle in VC++. It is always a wonderful time: looking back at all the accomplishments, the satisfaction of seeing all the cool new features working smoothly together, the eagerness of...