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February 29, 2012Feb 29, 201202/29/12
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February 18, 2012Feb 18, 201202/18/12At both Tech Ed North America 2012 (June 11th-14th) and Tech Ed Europe 2012 (June 26th-29th) there will be a C++ all day preconference! The title is C++ in 2012: Modern, Readable, Safe, Fast. Our C++ MVP Kate Gregory will deliver it and here’s the abstract:
C++ is gaining momentum as a development language,
February 15, 2012Feb 15, 201202/15/12The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team is looking for developers to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries! Opportunities include usability studies of upcoming features, focus groups where we explore new ideas, as well as 1:1 interviews.
February 9, 2012Feb 9, 201202/9/12Thanks to everyone who came to Redmond and/or watched online to participate in Going Native 2012, last week’s global C++-fest. It was a lot of fun, and generated a lot of useful and important talks that we hope will help continue disseminate understanding of C++11 throughout the global C++ community.
February 6, 2012Feb 6, 201202/6/12Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I am the primary developer working on the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC).
In Visual Studio 2010, the size of statically-linked MFC applications grew substantially. We’ve gotten a number of comments about this issue,
February 3, 2012Feb 3, 201202/3/12This month, we enter the third decade of C++ at Microsoft.
It was twenty years ago, in February of 1992, that we released our first C++ compiler: Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. Before then, we already worked with several of the C++ “preprocessor”
February 2, 2012Feb 2, 201202/2/12
Hello, My name is Vikas Bhatia and I am a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team. We are conducting a survey to see the relative urgency of C++11 features to you, the developer.
C++11 conformance is important to us.
February 2, 2012Feb 2, 201202/2/12UPDATE: We are already streaming live!!
Are you guys ready? This is the agenda for this event happening during today and tomorrow.
Day 1 – C++11 Today
[Keynote ] 9:30-11:00AM PST (1730 – 1900 UTC) — Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style
11:15-12:15PM PST (1915 –
