C++ Team Blog

Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or statically linking MFC

May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 05/7/13

Eric Battalio

Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking with MFC will get the following error when run on Windows XP:"The procedure entry point InitializeCriticalSectionEx could not be located in the...

NuGet for C++

April 26, 2013 Apr 26, 2013 04/26/13

Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]

The wait is over.  NuGet support for C++ projects is here.Quick Links• NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733• CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet packages: http://coapp.org/releases• Some C++ NuGet packages to try out:  http://nuget.org/...

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) drives next generation SAP NetWeaver Performance

April 21, 2013 Apr 21, 2013 04/21/13

Ankit Asthana

To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last blog I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is all about with an exercise which involved PGO’izing the NBody sample application.  In this blog I would like to talk about how PGO is used within ...

Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012

April 19, 2013 Apr 19, 2013 04/19/13

Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]

If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts.  These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the command line environment to use particular sets of Visual Studio tools, or to use specific versions of the Visual C++ compiler from the ...

Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3

April 11, 2013 Apr 11, 2013 04/11/13

Roberto Sonnino - MSFT

Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re ready to make the last few changes to get this app to run on Windows RT devices and Windows Phone 8.  If you haven&rsquo...

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)

April 8, 2013 Apr 8, 2013 04/8/13

Ankit Asthana

PGO is a runtime compiler optimization which leverages profile data collected from running important and performance centric user scenarios to build an optimized version of the application. PGO optimizations have some significant advantage over traditional static optimizations as they are based upon how the application is likely to perform in ...

Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13

Ankit Asthana

I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. For today's topic I want to blog about a really cool runtime compiler optimization called Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (we on the team call it POGO or PGO for short). PGO was initiated by the Visual C and Microsoft Research groups in the late 90's and primarily ...

Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3

April 2, 2013 Apr 2, 2013 04/2/13

Roberto Sonnino - MSFT

A few days ago we talked about how to use the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit to create a simple dice rolling app.  Now we’re going to take the app one step further, by adding some animation.  If you need to catch up, here’s a link to the previous blog post. Let it roll, baby, roll In order to make anything move in a ...

Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3

March 26, 2013 Mar 26, 2013 03/26/13

Roberto Sonnino - MSFT

As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D dice roller that allows you to roll a 6-sided die by tapping or clicking it. In the process of rolling a number, the die will jump and...

Visual C++ Developer Survey

March 22, 2013 Mar 22, 2013 03/22/13

Sumit Kumar (MSFT)

Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development in organizations like yours. If you have 15 minutes (maybe less), I would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts in our survey at https...