Musings on Random Issues

The following is an excerpt for a job posting inviting qualified people for the post of Dev Manager in the Visual C++ team here at Microsoft. For all C++ folks like us, this is good news that we are not yet extinct. All the phrases/sentences in bold, Read More...

With dual core processors on the desktops and notebooks already becoming mainstream, applications that are concurrent-aware and have support for parallelism will distinguish themselves from applications that do not have support. In case you are not already Read More...

I recently got a mail from a colleague, working in China, on how to receive session change notifications in a NT service running under Vista. I was already working on a similar problem and was able to crank up VS and get some code up and running. Here Read More...