Visual Studio

C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in…

Boris Jabes and JP Duplessis explain the new DX11 development experience in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (with demo).

Performance Architect Vance Morrison spends his time isolating and solving performance issues in the .NET framework and Visual Studio, and Vance and team have recently been busy tuning the performance and memory usage characteristics of .NET's upcoming release. Here, we learn about…

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce some of the new features and functionality coming to the Visual Basic language with the release of Visual Basic 10. We'll cover a whole range of features from Auto-Properties, to Multiline Lambdas, Statement Lambdas, Collection Initializers, Array Literals,…

In this episode of 10-4, we look at the new code editor in Visual Studio 2010. We'll try out some of the new code navigation features that make it easier to move around in your source code. Then we look at how Visual Studio 2010 makes Test Driven Development a lot easier. Finally, we'll see how…

Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build process that spits out a product at the other end?  Well I sure did and it's not just hitting F5 people . In this interview I sit down with Matt Gertz, frequent VB blogger and also…

The great Rico Mariani, software performance guru and Chief Architect of Visual Studio (we dig into what this role is exactly...), sits down with us to discuss what's on tap for the next iteration(s) of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010) and beyond... If you spend alot of time in VS, then you…

For most of their lifetimes, C# and VB.NET have evolved at their own pace and in their own ways (C# added iterators, VB.NET didn't. VB.NET added XML Literals, C# didn't. etc, etc...). Today, Luca Bolognese and team have embarked on a new approach to how .NET's premiere languages will evolve going…

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…

Page Inspector is a new tool that brings browser diagnostics tools into Visual Studio and provides an integrated experience between the browser, ASP.NET, and source code. Page Inspector works with web projects in Visual Studio (Web Application projects and Web Site projects) and enables you to…