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Optimizing C++ Code

May 29, 2013 May 29, 2013 05/29/13
Jim Hogg
Hi, my name is Jim Hogg and I am a Program Manager, working in the Visual C++ compiler team in Microsoft, based on the main campus here in Redmond. More specifically, I work in the part of the compiler that optimizes your code, to make it run faster, or to make it smaller, or a mixture of the two. In this series of blog posts, I will explain ...

Guest Post – The Expression Evaluator

March 7, 2013 Mar 7, 2013 03/7/13
OfekShilon
Hi. My name is Ofek Shilon and I blog mostly about various VC++ tricks I come by. Today I’d like to explicitly introduce a debugging feature we all use daily but seldom refer to it by name – the native expression evaluator (abbreviated EE below). The Basics Every time you use the Watch window, a lot is going on behind the scenes...

November CTP, isocpp.org, Standard C++ Foundations Announced Today

November 2, 2012 Nov 2, 2012 11/2/12
Eric Battalio
November 2, 12:45pm PDT C++ use and investment continues to grow strongly in all parts of the software industry, and broadly across all major industries. As Herb Sutter said, more than ever “Microsoft is built on C++, and the world runs on C++.” At the same time, programmers now need to be educated that C++ is not the same language it ...

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...

Developing Windows Applications in C++ (Articles Series)

July 25, 2011 Jul 25, 2011 07/25/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) We got just published “Developing Windows Applications in C++”,  an article series created by C++ Most Valuable Professional Kate Gregory. This material is aimed at C++ developers who want to learn how to write Windows applications. It won’t teach you C++, or how to use Windows as an end user. But if you know C...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010

January 6, 2011 Jan 6, 2011 01/6/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Hi! I’m Ale Contenti and I’d like to show you here a session on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for C++ in Visual Studio 2010 I presented last November at TechEd Europe, in Berlin. People often wonder how we expect C++ developers to take advantage of the many ALM scenarios enabled in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Today...

Staying Current with Visual C++ 2010

December 20, 2010 Dec 20, 2010 12/20/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) A few weeks ago, the 2010 Edition of TechEd Europe took place in Berlin, Germany. C++ MVP Kate Gregory (picture) delivered a session where she shows through demos the latest achievements in the C++arena, especially regarding the upcoming C++0x version of language (scheduled by 2011), its libraries, concurrency and related IDE ...