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STL Resources on MSDN

January 21, 2014 Jan 21, 2014 01/21/14
Eric Battalio
Before reviewing the excellent standard template library resources on MSDN (including Channel 9), did you know Visual Studio 2013.1 (Update 1) is available now? Brian Harry writes about the release on his blog, mentioning that the release is smaller and focused on working better with IE versions prior to IE 10. It is worth a read. You can grab...

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...

Announcing Wrox’s Professional C++, 2nd Edition

October 10, 2011 Oct 10, 2011 10/10/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “Professional C++, Second Edition”. This second edition includes the latest C++ standard, C++11, and is based on the great first edition written by Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper. The book is ...

C++11 Features in Visual C++ 11

September 12, 2011 Sep 12, 2011 09/12/11
Visual CPP Team
UPDATE - March 2, 2012: the range-based for-loop and override/final v1.0 have been implemented in VC11 Beta. There's a new C++ Standard and a new version of Visual C++, and it's time to reveal what features from the former we're implementing in the latter!Terminology notes: During its development, the new C++ Standard was (optimistically...

C9::GoingNative: Visual C++ Upcoming IDE Demos, a CRT Talk and More!!

August 29, 2011 Aug 29, 2011 08/29/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Greetings! Charles Torre and I came back with the second episode of Channel 9 Going Native –which is actually episode 1, considering that C++, as a C-like language, starts indexing from 0. This time we follow up from a recent article that my colleague and friend Sumit Kumar (Program Manager in the Visual C++ team) wrote last ...