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May 28, 2011May 28, 201105/28/11Read 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-mode scenario with tracking handles to value types
CSyncCollection v1.09
Referential danger
Why is my program terminating with exit code 3?
May 26, 2011May 26, 201105/26/11Hi, 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, mutexes, reader-writer locks,
May 21, 2011May 21, 201105/21/11Read 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: John Lakos on Defensive Programming
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May 19, 2011May 19, 201105/19/11As 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.
May 18, 2011May 18, 201105/18/11Greetings!! 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 Lifecycle Management (ALM) roadmap in Visual Studio 11.
May 16, 2011May 16, 201105/16/11Hi, I’m Charles Torre, Sr. Technographer with Channel 9.
One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size.
May 14, 2011May 14, 201105/14/11Read in this issue:
Boris Jabes: Rock Hard: C++ Evolving
Raymond Chen: A function pointer cast is a bug waiting to happen
Viva64: How to make fewer errors at the stage of code writing. Part N2
ACCU 2011: Scott Meyers on Move Semantics,
May 11, 2011May 11, 201105/11/11Hi, I’m Boris Jabes, senior program manager lead on the Visual C++ team.
Last month I delivered a session at DevDays 2011 Netherlands, taking a fresh perspective on C++0x (or should I say, C++11) and the power of modern native programming.
May 7, 2011May 7, 201105/7/11Read 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 Expressions
Herb Sutter Shares Perspectives on the New C++ Standard
Developing a Native Win32 Application for Windows 7 Touch
(InformIT) Ten Techniques to Reduce the Size of Your Classes,
May 4, 2011May 4, 201105/4/11Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I primarily work on MFC.
In Visual Studio 2010, a ribbon designer was added which allows you to visually edit the ribbon used in your MFC application. This doesn’t help you,
