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• Day 2 Keynote - Herb Sutter: C++11, VC++11 and Beyond

  5 days ago

  Great talk!

  The stuff about the standard library was particularly interesting, and I look forward to a greatly expanded library coming, as that has long been one of the biggest knocks against C++.

   

  @pierremf: As I recall, the C++7 package was on 3.5" 1.44MB floppies (a lot of them).  That was WAY before DVD-rom and even before CD-rom.  I used to have a few of those boxes taking up shelves.

• Interactive Panel: Ask Us Anything!

  5 days ago

  So what was the question "for anybody but Herb"???

   

• Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys

  5 days ago

  +1.  Chandler's very well-presented and very impressive presentation was the [unexpected] highlight of the conference for me (along with Bjarne's sessions).  I hope the VC compiler team was taking very careful notes.  And I agree that Chandler added a lot to the question panel.  I'm looking forward to following the progress of Clang.

• Checking In: Larry Osterman - 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting

  Feb 02, 2012 at 7:19 AM

  Fantastic interview!  This one is without doubt among the very best of all time on Ch9.  There is so much wisdom and experience in Larry's words.  This man knows of what he speaks, and we could probably all learn a few things from him.

   

• GoingNative 2012: All Sessions are now available On-Demand!

  Jan 30, 2012 at 7:03 AM

  Looking forward to watching this online.  Should be a great show!

  Thanks to all for putting this on and making it available to those of us who can't be there in person.

   

• GoingNative 4: Jim Springfield on ATL, GoingNative Conference - Register Today!

  Nov 30, 2011 at 7:45 AM

  Another great episode.  Thanks Charles, Jim, and Diego.

   

• C9 Lectures: Mahmoud Saleh - Advanced CRT 1 of n

  Oct 06, 2011 at 11:24 AM

  Sweet!  This sounds great!  Downloading.

   

• GoingNative 2: C++ at BUILD, Windows Runtime Library(WRL), Meet Tarek and Sridhar

  Oct 04, 2011 at 1:03 PM

  @bernd, @jps   +1.  The big missing piece is a modern, fully native UI framework (primarily, though not necessarily entirely, for native languages) that can target desktop applications.  The managed code world has had options like XAML/WPF for some time, but native users are stuck with Win32/MFC still, after all these years.  I was really disappointed to see no change there at Build.  Maybe it is coming eventually, but we are feeling left out in the cold yet again.  CLI is more of a workaround than a solution.  I think all the new stuff for Metro apps is great, but it has very little bearing on my current or future needs.

  +1 to the idea of a template metaprogramming series.  That would be fun.  STL could probably do that readily.  Or you could get some guest lectures from Andrei and blow everybody's mind.

  Thanks for the shows.

• GoingNative Live at BUILD: Herb Sutter, Joanna Mason, Tony Goodhew

  Sep 30, 2011 at 12:47 PM

  I need to highlight something here, because Herb may have just verified the most key piece of information yet.  In response to the question about UI choices for C++ desktop (not Metro) apps, the response was (all the obvious previous choices), plus XAML!  So Herb is confirming that we can in fact use XAML to develop C++ UI for non-Metro applications (or did he just not hear the whole question)?  For me this is a critical piece of the puzzle.  All the stuff for Metro is fine and good, but what I really need is a modern option for C++ desktop UIs.  I suspected that the WinRT stuff would eventually be applied for desktop apps too (after the initial push for Metro support), but this is the first time I have heard an answer more definitive than "we'll think about it".  (We are still talking about C+++/CX here, not C++/CLI/managed, right?) 

  If everything that has been provided for creating Metro apps also becomes available to target desktop apps (and maybe WP and XBOX too), then this will be huge.  Fingers crossed that (at least the desktop apps) will run on Vista/Win7 too.

   

• Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders

  Sep 27, 2011 at 1:53 PM

  YAY!  I've been wanting this since I saw it on the video of the science fair, but it was only available internally. 

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