Hi! I am Amit Mohindra, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team . Earlier in the month my colleague Sumit Kumar had talked about some of the exciting IDE features in the next version of Visual Studio . Today I will just add to that list a few more features...

Greetings! Charles Torre and I came back with the second episode of Channel 9 Going Native –which is actually episode 1, considering that C++, as a C-like language, starts indexing from 0. This time we follow up from a recent article that my...

Hi! I am Sumit Kumar , a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today I will talk to you about some of the exciting new IDE functionality in the next version of Visual Studio that will make you, the C++ developer, more productive with your daily code...

GoingNative is a new, monthly show on Channel 9 dedicated to native development and native developers, with an emphasis on modern C++. In our inaugural episode, we keep things light and easy as we introduce you to what we're doing, why we're doing it...

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...

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,...

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...

Read in this issue : Enforcing Correct Concurrent Access of Class Data DirectCompute Lecture Series 230: GPU Accelerated Physics InformIT: Top Ten Tips for Correct C++ Coding ACCU 2011: Michael Feathers On Our Ability To Do Much Mixed...

Hi, this is Jim Springfield . I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team. In any concurrent application, protecting data from concurrent access is extremely important. There are many primitives that can be used for this, such as critical sections...

Read in this issue : ALM for C++ in Visual Studio vNext Provide Your Custom Class Name to your MFC Application InformIT: Telltale Signs of a Failed Software Project, Part I DirectCompute Lecture Series 210: GPU Optimizations and Performance ACCU 2011...

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...

Greetings!! I’m Rong Lu , Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. It’s been extremely exciting in Atlanta at TechEd North America 2011 ! Terry Leeper, Diego Dagum and I had a chance to be at TechEd and joined the announcement of Application...