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Using Windows Azure Mobile Services from C++ Windows Store apps

November 5, 2013 Nov 5, 2013 11/5/13
Raman Sharma
Most good apps these days provide some kind of connected experience whether it is the ability to connect to existing popular web services (like Facebook, Twitter, SkyDrive etc.) or building their own custom backend based somewhere in the cloud.  Visual Studio 2013 provides support for both these scenarios for C++ developers.  For the...

The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration

October 29, 2013 Oct 29, 2013 10/29/13
Ankit Asthana
The time spent in the link phase could be a significant portion of an applications overall build time for most large projects. A user can quickly determine this by adding the '/time' flag to the linker command line. The 'Final: Total time' reports the total time spent in the link phase. There are essentially two primary scenarios to consider ...

The *New Performance Optimization Tool* for Visual C++ applications

October 22, 2013 Oct 22, 2013 10/22/13
Ankit Asthana
Introduction As a part of the VS2013 preview release the 'Performance and Diagnostics Hub' was introduced. The Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) tool is a new performance optimization tool  that integrates with 'Performance and Diagnostic Hub'. The tool is not a part of the out of the box install of Visual Studio 2013 but can be downloaded...

Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
Eric Battalio
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available. And now—in no particular order—here are the top reasons why C++ developers want Visual Studio 2013:Better C++ language conformance. Support for C++11 began in Visual Studio 2010, which included auto and lambda functions. In Visual Studio 2012, we implemented ...

Visual C++ Libraries Survey

September 30, 2013 Sep 30, 2013 09/30/13
Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]
The Visual C++ team wants to better understand how you use libraries in your day-to-day development work. Whether you’re publishing libraries, finding libraries that work on the Microsoft platforms for which you’re building your apps, or integrating libraries into your project and build systems, we want to hear from you so we can ...

Friday Videos: Going Native 2013

September 27, 2013 Sep 27, 2013 09/27/13
Eric Battalio
Going Native 2013 ended a few weeks ago, but the sessions live on in a series of videos on Channel 9. Don't have time for all of them? Here are some of the most-viewed sessions: Which session did you enjoy the most (and why...

Vector Calling Convention on channel 9

September 16, 2013 Sep 16, 2013 09/16/13
Ankit Asthana
Recently we recorded a session for 'Vector Calling Convention' on Channel 9 , as part of the “Going Native” series.  Vector calling convention is a new calling convention (specially for vector types) we introduced in the VS-2013.  The video for this recording can be found here.For more information about Vector ...

Introducing ‘/Gw’ Compiler Switch

September 11, 2013 Sep 11, 2013 09/11/13
Ankit Asthana
A compiler can only optimize away data or a function if a compiler can prove that the data or function will never be referenced. In a non-LTCG compile (i.e. a build with Whole Program Optimization (WPO) disabled) the compiler's visibility is only limited to a single module (.obj), so for data and function that has global scope, the compiler ...

Visual Studio 2013 RC Now Available

September 9, 2013 Sep 9, 2013 09/9/13
Eric Battalio
A few minutes ago, Soma announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013. Also announced was the Virtual Launch date – November 13th, 2013:The RC release is the next big step toward the release of Visual Studio 2013. Today I am also excited to announce that Visual Studio 2013 ...