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• Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging

  Mar 04, 2013 at 6:43 AM

  One other note, after installing this and restarting VS2012 Up1 my color scheme changed. I have the MS theme editor and it unexpectedly switched from the Light theme to a Red theme.

• Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging

  Mar 04, 2013 at 6:41 AM

  So close to being useful.  We don't use OpenCV but would love to get the natvis description for some common MS formats such as:

  Gdiplus::Bitmap, Gdiplus::Image, WIC Images, HBITMAP

• Designing Windows 8 Line of Business Apps Revisited

  Jan 11, 2013 at 5:38 AM

  Have to agree with some of the comments about the UI. If I had to use something like this daily I'd go nuts. Metro UI may be okay for music/news/games apps but something as simple as this starts to reveal the limitations of this UI language. There is just way too much functionality buried under rocks. The application loses it's discoverability in exchange for a barren UI.

• Graphic Improvements in Windows 8

  Dec 10, 2012 at 8:11 AM

  Have to agreewith KawaiiGardiner. Why no updates for Desktop devs?  When will we be able to safely and speedily mix D2D and WPF graphics on the desktop?

• Inside Windows 8: Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya - The Windows Runtime

  Nov 14, 2012 at 5:29 AM

  "For better or for worse, desktop apps are desktop apps." -- this quote makes me sad. It says to me that no investment has been made to improve the desktop developer's life. As a scientific data visualization tool, our app has MANY windows (and needs all of them). We would LOVE to do XAML UI in C++ with our desktop app. A Windows Store app makes no sense at all for our app. What do we desktop devs have to look forward to?  We use WPF now (from C++/CLI) but it's just too darn slow and uses .NET but only so that we can use WPF + XAML.

• Cartoonizer - C++ AMP sample

  Sep 14, 2012 at 6:27 AM

  Great stuff. Looking forward to the book.

• Defrag Tools: #6 - RAMMap

  Sep 04, 2012 at 10:52 AM

  Excellent. Looking forward to the VMMap video.

• GoingNative 9: LINQ for C/C++, Native Rx, Meet Aaron Lahman

  Jun 08, 2012 at 5:52 PM

  I see the trivial example above mentions begin() and end() so the ans. to my Q #2 is probably Yes. cool.

• GoingNative 9: LINQ for C/C++, Native Rx, Meet Aaron Lahman

  Jun 08, 2012 at 5:50 PM

  This looks excellent! A couple of simple questions:

  1. Will the generated collections (ex. powers) work with rage-based for?

  2. Will the generated collections work with the function form of begin and end? ex. for (auto i = begin(powers); i != end(powers); i++)

  It seems that I'll need to to_vector() if I want to use those but just wanted to confirm.

• GoingNative 7: VC11 Auto-Vectorizer, C++ NOW, Lang.NEXT

  Mar 28, 2012 at 7:40 AM

  Excellent interview and discussion.

  I'm encouraged about Jim's near-slip of getting a v2 of AV/AP out as quickly as possible after Dev 11 (good agreement with Herb Sutter's hints that C++ interim releases may be coming).

  We harped on perf being important and this proves you listened.

  The tooling and logs Mr Hogg imagines near the end will be ciritical to helping us know whether AV/AP is in effect or how far off my code is from playing (ex. imagine a warning like "Autovectorization skipped for loop ( line 245) in foo() because variable ptrA is not aligned on a 4 byte boundary...")

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