Jumping into C++
I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other...
View ArticleIn The Community: Meet Kate Gregory
In the Community is an ongoing series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet Kate Gregory. Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler. She...
View ArticleAfter the Jump
This is a follow up to Jumping Into C++, a first-hand account of my experiences writing my first modern C++ application. It was a simple exercise that turned out to be not so simple and much more...
View ArticleIn The Community: Meet Marius Bancila
In the Community is a regular series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, the spotlight is on Marius Bancila, a developer and C++ MVP. Marius has been developing desktop...
View ArticleFriday Miscellany #5
Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers, a C++...
View ArticleIn the Community: Meet Nish Sivakumar
In the Community is a regular series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet Nish, a C++ MVP, author and long-time developer. Nish has been writing code since 1990 when...
View Articledo-while, casts, ODR, variadic templates - Core C++, Part 8
Part 8 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available. In this part, I covered several topics: why I avoid do-while loops, how C and C++ casts behave and why...
View ArticleIn the Community: Meet PJ Naughter
In the Community spotlights members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet PJ Naughter, a C++ MVP and prolific C++ developer. Take it away, PJ… PJ has been a C++ MVP since 2007. In his spare...
View ArticleVisual Studio 3D Starter Kit – Now for Windows Phone 8
Last year, I decided I finally wanted to take the plunge into DirectX development. I'd done a little bit of OpenGL programming several years ago, but no graphics development since then. I bought a few...
View ArticleIn the Community: Meet Tom Serface
Welcome to In the Community. This week, meet Tom Serface, C++ MVP and longtime Visual C++ user. I have been using VC++ with MFC since it first came out circa 1993 and I saw it demonstrated at a local...
View ArticleJumping Into C++: Calculating Unknowns
Last time, I wrote a C++ program to count words in text files. This time, write some code to calculate the motion of an object as an excuse to create a class, use function pointers and mess with some...
View ArticleThe C++ REST SDK ("Casablanca")
The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") has officially been released as an open source project on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). We first announced Casablanca as an incubation project on...
View ArticleIn the Community: Meet David Cravey
Welcome back to In the Community, our continuing series focusing on members of the C++ and developer community. This week, meet David Cravey, I cut my teeth on programming in BASIC (GW-BASIC/QBasic),...
View ArticleConnecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Last week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). This blog post will walk you through...
View ArticleGuest Post - The Expression Evaluator
Hi. My name is Ofek Shilon and I blog mostly about various VC++ tricks I come by. Today I’d like to explicitly introduce a debugging feature we all use daily but seldom refer to it by name – the native...
View ArticleAdvanced Developers Conference 2013: C++
The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, debugging, creating and consuming cloud services,...
View ArticleConnecting to Facebook with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, this is Andy Rich from the C++ QA team. Previously, I showed you how you can use the C++ REST API to connect to Live services, but this is just one of many web services that you can use the REST...
View ArticleVisual C++ Developer Survey
Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development...
View ArticleDeveloping an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3
As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D...
View ArticleDeveloping an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 2 of 3
A few days ago we talked about how to use the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit to create a simple dice rolling app. Now we’re going to take the app one step further, by adding some animation. If you need...
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