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C++ Tools Acquisition for Windows Phone and Store Development

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Vaishnavi-MSFT
Through this blog post we wanted to inform you that C++ apps in Visual Studio 2015 Preview will be able to target Windows 8.1 Store and Phone development along with Windows 8.0 Phone development.  Everything mentioned below is relevant only for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. To provide this experience for the users VS 2015 pulls in...

Speeding up the Incremental Developer Build Scenario

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Ankit Asthana
Overview One of the major focus areas for Visual C++ lately has been improving developer productivity. Keeping this in mind a plethora of improvements have been introduced with Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) aimed at the developer incremental scenario. The developer incremental scenario is one where a developer changes a single or...

Details About Some of the New C++ Language Features

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Yuriy Solodkyy
When you read our release notes, you'll notice that we've added a large number of C++ language features. The details of what these features are can be found all over the web, but what purpose they serve might still be nebulous. This article will attempt to explain the origins of and how to use a few of these new language mechanisms for best ...

CppCon – The C++ Conference

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Eric Battalio
In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft put on the GoingNative conference which is all about portable C++ on all compilers and platforms. The two GoingNative events were wildly popular and have been two of the biggest C++ conferences ever, so developers have been asking us: Will there be a GoingNative 2014, and when?In his Build conference session Modern ...

CppCon – The C++ Conference

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14
Eric Battalio
In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft put on the GoingNative conference which is all about portable C++ on all compilers and platforms. The two GoingNative events were wildly popular and have been two of the biggest C++ conferences ever, so developers have been asking us: Will there be a GoingNative 2014, and when?In his Build conference session Modern ...

BUILD 2014, Talks for Thursday

April 2, 2014 Apr 2, 2014 04/2/14
Eric Battalio
While I am not attending the Build conference myself, I did tune in for the keynote and bits and pieces of other live-streamed talks and look forward to catching many of the sessions over on Channel 9 once they are available.Here is what is happening for C++ developers at Build on Thursday, 4/3: Share your thoughts in the comments below ...

cppcon registration open!

March 18, 2014 Mar 18, 2014 03/18/14
Eric Battalio
From cppcon:Registration is now open for CppCon 2014 to be held September 7–12, 2014 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The conference will start with the keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup titled "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"This is a full five-day conference, and in this first year the CppCon organizers are shooting ...

Winter ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report

February 18, 2014 Feb 18, 2014 02/18/14
Eric Battalio
Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA:The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in last summer's comment ballot for the upcoming C++14 standard. We also began comment processing for the recent corresponding ballot for the File ...

Advanced Developers Conference 2014

February 7, 2014 Feb 7, 2014 02/7/14
Eric Battalio
The Advanced Developers Conference 2014 takes place April 29-30 in Munich. This years sessions will be about modern device apps, debugging, drivers, graphics,cloud services and much more.The conference will host about 200 attendees with a broad range of international speakers including one or two from Microsoft. It is a great conference for ...

Windows Azure Storage Client Library for C++

January 30, 2014 Jan 30, 2014 01/30/14
Eric Battalio
The Windows Azure Storage team has announced the availability of a new Windows Azure Storage Client Library for C++. This is a preview release and they are looking for your feedback. This release includes support for blob, table, and queue storage abstractions and provides additional functionality such as retry logic, authentication, logging, ...