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The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 3 (Jan 15, 2011) Is Out

 We just released the third issue of The Visual C++ Weekly. For technical reasons, from the original list of articles, there are two that weren’t caught and got lost but we’ll make sure to include them in the fourth issue (to appear next Saturday, January 22). This issue contains an Intel concurrency demo based on the ...

A 101 on GPU-Accelerated Apps in the Windows Platform

(image) In the last Professional Developer Conference (PDC), a few months ago, Chas Boyd –PM Architect with Windows Graphics at Microsoft- delivered a general overview of the Windows Graphics architecture, its different APIs and the application types they are intended to. It’s a 100-level session, what means that is informative ...

C++ Programming Interviews: What Interviewers Want You To Show

A recent study showed that C++ is still among the most used languages (ahead of any other Visual Studio officially supported language like C# or Visual Basic). But despite being widely used and known by several generations of developers –thanks that it has been out there for decades now, while being still the most taught language in the ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 2 (Jan 8, 2011) Is Out

C++ MVP Kenny Kerr starts a new series on modern Windows development with C++0x. Intel features a highly parallel optimized crowd simulation technique. Get All-In-One: a code sample library for Microsoft development technologies. C++ MVP Kate Gregory shares a “lost+found” ISO technical report on C++ performance. And much, much more...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010

(image) Hi! I’m Ale Contenti and I’d like to show you here a session on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010 I presented last November at TechEd Europe, in Berlin. People often wonder how we expect C++ developers to take advantage of the many ALM scenarios enabled in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Today...

2011 Comes with a New C++ Weekly Roundup

(image) Happy New Year!! Starting 2011, we’ll be releasing every week a compilation of articles, videos, downloadable stuff, interviews and other news related with our programming language. Sources may or may not be MS-owned, as long as the content is of the common interest. This may also apply for the timeline of articles: they may not ...