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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 ...

GoingNative 2012 Online

February 9, 2012 Feb 9, 2012 02/9/12
Visual CPP Team
(image) Thanks to everyone who came to Redmond and/or watched online to participate in Going Native 2012, last week’s global C++-fest. It was a lot of fun, and generated a lot of useful and important talks that we hope will help continue disseminate understanding of C++11 throughout the global C++ community. All the videos and decks are ...

Reducing the Size of Statically-linked MFC Applications in VC11

February 6, 2012 Feb 6, 2012 02/6/12
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 the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). In Visual Studio 2010, the size of statically-linked MFC applications grew substantially. We’ve gotten a number of comments about this issue, so I wanted to post an article ...

The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20!

February 3, 2012 Feb 3, 2012 02/3/12
Visual CPP Team
(image) This month, we enter the third decade of C++ at Microsoft. It was twenty years ago, in February of 1992, that we released our first C++ compiler: Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. Before then, we already worked with several of the C++ “preprocessor” compilers that took C++ and converted it to C before our compiler then created the ...

C++11 Conformance Survey

February 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012 02/2/12
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hello, My name is Vikas Bhatia and I am a Program Manager in the Visual C++ team. We are conducting a survey to see the relative urgency of C++11 features to you, the developer. C++11 conformance is important to us. We intend to implement the C++11 language features. We are evaluating the order with which to implement these ...

The Magic of Going Native 2012 Starts Today!

February 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012 02/2/12
Visual CPP Team
UPDATE: We are already streaming live!! (image) Are you guys ready? This is the agenda for this event happening during today and tomorrow. Day 1 – C++11 Today Day 2 – C++11 Today and Tomorrow   The event will be available for live streaming and on demand!! We’ll see you then...

Enhancements to /GS in Visual Studio 11

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12
Visual CPP Team
Tim Burrell outlines more of the work done by Security Science & the Visual Studio team.He previously noted that they are updating the on-by-default /GS compiler switch, which provides protection against some memory safety bugs such as buffer overflows. In a new post he provides additional information on those changes.[Go to the article...

GoingNative 2012 Full Schedule

January 18, 2012 Jan 18, 2012 01/18/12
Visual CPP Team
Charles has recently published the agenda for GoingNative 2012 –the first C++ only event done in MS in many years.Great speakers and compelling topics. Take a look here...