C++

Thanks to all of you who attended on premise and in the cloud. All sessions are available for on demand viewing. Whether you are a new C++ developer ready to learn about writing Metro style apps, an intermediate developer who wants to honeyour code and skills, or an experienced…

While on campus for the MVP Summit in February, I had a chance to visit Henry Sowizral over in building 41. Henry Sowizral is a Principal Architect in Microsoft Expression, and he and his team did something really cool: they converted an existing C/C++/MFC application to have a WPF…

If you write managed code and interop with unmanaged, you know the pain involved with marshaling string types across runtimes... If you write MFC apps and want to take advantage of new whiz bang shell UI features (aka common controls) without writing more code that specifically targets Vista, for…

Hi, I am Daniel Moth This screencast assumes no knowledge of C++ AMP and introduces the core API from scratch. You'll see parallel_for_each, extent, index, restrict(amp), array_view, and accelerator. I will explain these concepts through a "hello world" code…

Kang Su Gatlin, program manager on Visual C++, explains some of the advantages that C++ has over C# or VB.NET for writing managed code.

Kang Su Gatlin, program manager on Visual C++, talks about the challenges that Visual C++ programmers have when moving to the managed code environment of .NET. He also discloses that Visual C++ developers can use both managed and unmanaged code in their projects.

While attending C++ and Beyond 2011, I was able to convince a few fellow attendees to get in front of the camera and talk about C++, how they use the language, and what they think of C++11 and C++ and Beyond. Here, we meet Barry Dale, a software developer building…

From Effective C++, Third Edition:TR1 ("Technical Report 1") is a specification for new functionality being added to C++'s standard library. This functionality takes the form of new class and function templates for things like hash tables, reference-counting smart pointers,…

Introduction to ShadersFallFury not only relies on standard C++/C# and XAML code, but also on shaders. This article is intended for developers who are not aware of what shaders are and want to know how to use them in their projects. I will talk about creating shaders, as well as the shaders…

Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) technologies enable developers to customize an application's behavior when Windows Error Reporting (WER) terminates the application due to an unrecoverable error. For example, it enables an application to perform data recovery and cleanup…