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What Are SCARY Iterators?

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Hi there! I’m Diego Dagum, a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As Stephan announced last September when Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was released, our STL implementation comes with SCARY iterators. On Stephan’s words, ”(…) as permitted but not required by the C++11 Standard, SCARY ...

Auto-Vectorization on Channel9

March 27, 2012 Mar 27, 2012 03/27/12
Visual CPP Team
Jim Radigan and I recorded a session for Channel9 last week, as part of the “Going Native” series.  We describe the “auto-vectorizer” – a neat feature in the VS11 compiler backend that analyses loops, in regular, unmodified C++ code, and generates corresponding vector (SIMD) instructions: tight loops using ...

VC11 ISO C++ Concurrency Tour in March Issue of MSDN Mag

March 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012 03/16/12
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Greetings!! I am Diego Dagum, Community Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. I recently got an article published in the current issue of MSDN Magazine about the ISO C++11 concurrency features implemented in Visual C++ 11.     It’s a 101-level journey through standardized features like: [...

Setting WINVER for MFC Applications

March 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012 03/13/12
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and I am the primary developer working on MFC. I’ve realized over the course of the past several years that a number of developers (especially those using ATL and/or MFC) can be confused about the proper usage and setting of the WINVER #define (and/or the ...

What’s up with MFC in Visual Studio 2011 Beta

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. Through this blog post I wanted to share some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library, since I am the primary developer working on MFC. As you know, MFC is an important technology component which has been extensively used over the years by...

What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta for C++ Developers

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12
Visual CPP Team
  Snippets of the Metro style version for the most popular 101 application.       Download this Beta today:       As Jason Zander –CVP of Visual Studio- just confirmed, a Visual Studio 11 Beta was released earlier today. What can C++ developers expect from this new version compared ...

C++ Precon at Tech Ed 2012 – Orlando and Amsterdam

February 18, 2012 Feb 18, 2012 02/18/12
Visual CPP Team
At 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, so whether you’ve never used...

Help Us Make Improvements

February 15, 2012 Feb 15, 2012 02/15/12
Visual CPP Team
The 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.Is this just about Visual Studio users?You do NOT need to be a ...