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October 31, 2011Oct 31, 201110/31/11C++/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]
October 31, 2011Oct 31, 201110/31/11There’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 Programming in Native Code.
October 20, 2011Oct 20, 201110/20/11Hello. This is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team.
Today, I want to give some insight into the new language extensions, officially called C++/CX, which was designed to support the new API model in Windows 8. If you attended //BUILD/,
October 11, 2011Oct 11, 201110/11/11In a recent Going Native episode in Channel 9, Charles (Torre) and I interviewed Mahmoud Saleh, the software engineer who keeps the C Runtime library.
Now Mahmoud prepared for you a 1-hour lecture on some of the CRT topics like
Memory leak detection (CRT debug heap).
October 10, 2011Oct 10, 201110/10/11Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “Professional C++, Second Edition”.
This second edition includes the latest C++ standard, C++11, and is based on the great first edition written by Nicholas A.
October 4, 2011Oct 4, 201110/4/11We’re back with the third installment of C9::GoingNative.
At the recent //BUILD conference, we introduced a series of technologies targeting the upcoming version of the Windows platform. One of those consists in some extensions to the C++ language, intended to help developers bridge their C++ logic to the Windows Runtime (WinRT) environment.
