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C++/CX Part 0 of [n]: An Introduction

August 29, 2012 Aug 29, 2012 08/29/12
Visual CPP Team
Hello; I'm James McNellis, and I've recently joined the Visual C++ team as a libraries developer. My first encounter with the C++/CX language extensions was early last year, while implementing some code generation features for the Visual Studio 2012 XAML designer. I started off by hunting for some example code, and it suffices to say that...

Connecting C++ and XAML

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a tester on the C++ frontend compiler and one of the primary testers of the C++/CX language extensions.  If you’re like me, making use of a technology without understanding how it works can be confusing and frustrating.  This blog post will help explain how XAML and C++ work together in the build system...

Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012

August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 08/14/12
Rahul V. Patil
If you have read Jason Zander’s post earlier today, you know that Visual Studio 2012 has been released to the web! Check out the MSDN Subscriber Download Page  and the Visual Studio product website. This release has brought a huge amount of new value for C++ developers. Here are the highlights:    C++11 Standards ...

Template Argument Deduction – Core C++, Part 2

July 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012 07/16/12
Visual CPP Team
Part 2 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available.  In this part, I took an hour to explore template argument deduction, including what "non-deduced contexts" are - and how they can be used to your advantage!  For reference, here are all of the links to my video lectures, plus my GoingNative ...

Debugger Type Visualizers for C++ in Visual Studio 2012

July 12, 2012 Jul 12, 2012 07/12/12
Visual CPP Team
 In Visual Studio 2012, one of the new features for C++ developers is the new native type visualization framework (natvis) added to the debugger which allows customizing the way data types are displayed in debugger variable windows (e. g. autos, watch, locals, and data tips). For those who are familiar with the autoexp.dat file that has ...

Announcing Casablanca refresh

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12
Visual CPP Team
Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. Today, we are announcing a “bug-fix” refresh to the Casablanca release. The update can be downloaded from the Casablanca devlabs site....

Targeting Windows XP with C++ in Visual Studio 2012

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12
Steve Teixeira, MSFT
We recently announced the Visual Studio 2012 product lineup and platform support, and as a part of this announcement we mentioned that we were evaluating options for enabling C++ developers to build applications in Visual Studio 2012 that run on Windows XP without requiring side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2010. Today I would like to...