C++

Ever wonder how intellisense works in your VC++ IDE? What are some the core changes to the IDE in VC2005? What's coming? All of these questions and more are answered by one of the most reliable sources: Shankar Vaidyanathan, Lead Developer on the VC++ IDE Team who, among other…

Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of…

Recently, MVPs from all over the world descended on Redmond to interact with product teams and fellow MVPs. They were given access to information relating to technology futures, roadmaps, etc. Al the things MVPs are privy to. I spent some time at the C++ MVP summit where several excellent…

Sometimes, things go wrong when code executes. You can't predict when this will happen or even why, but you can write code to handle exceptional problems. If you're lucky, the problem will carry with it a bunch of useful information that you can use, at runtime, to handle the specific error. These…

Abstract: Jerry Nixon welcomes Eric Battalio, Ayman Shoukry and Raman Sharma from the Visual C++ team as they discuss how you can develop Windows 8 apps using C++.  Tune in as they provide best practices and reasons why you would want to use this language. Next Steps:Step #1 –…

GoingNative live at BUILD! This is part 1with Ale Contenti, Boris Jabes and Tony Goodhew. Topics include C++ for Metro style apps, Visual Studio 11 DirectX development enhancements and more.

Martin Thompson is a high-performance and low-latency computing specialist, with experience gained over two decades working with large scale transactional and big-data domains, including automotive, gaming, financial, mobile, and content management. He believes Mechanical Sympathy - applying an…

In templates all your specialization is happening at design time, in generics it happens at runtime. That's just one of the differences between the two. Hear Scott Currie, program manager on the Visual C++ team, discuss the differences.

The compiler gurus over in C++ World (we spend a lot of time in building 41) have just released the latest CTP of the Phoenix Compiler Framework. It's been a while since we've learned about Phoenix here on Channel 9 so we thought it necessary to find out what's going on with the…

In late May, I arrived in Redmond to work as an intern on the Channel9 team. I had the freedom to choose what I was going to work on, so I decided to challenge myself and work outside my comfort zone, utilizing less C# and managed code and more C++ and DirectX. To do so, I decided to…