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C++ REST SDK 1.2.0 is now available
C++ REST SDK 1.2.0 has been released on CodePlex. This version of the C++ REST SDK includes the following: Support for HTTPS for the Linux version of the libraryClient side features for Windows XP...
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Feedback on Your C++ Development Activities
Hello. My name is Gabriel Ha and I am a program manager on the Visual C++ team.Do you have 10-20 minutes to take a survey on C++ developer activities?We want to get a better idea of what C++ developers...
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Going Native 2013 - Day 1
Going Native kicks off today!If you made it to Redmond to attend, I look forward to meeting you. If you could not make it this year, you still have a front via Channel 9.Here is day one content:9 am,...
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Going Native 2013 - Day 2
Day one is in the bag. If you are like me, you are still digesting all of the great content (and doing a few web searches to brush up on terminology/concepts).Today promises to be another excellent...
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Going Native - Day 3
Day 3 has kicked off, check http://channel9.msdn.com/?rnd=1378482692602 to catch the latest.Sessions run the gamut, from C++ and the Windows Runtime to Exploding Tuples and another Q&A forum.See...
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Visual Studio 2013 RC Now Available
A few minutes ago, Soma announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013. Also announced was the Virtual Launch date – November 13th, 2013:The...
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Introducing ‘/Gw’ Compiler Switch
A compiler can only optimize away data or a function if a compiler can prove that the data or function will never be referenced. In a non-LTCG compile (i.e. a build with Whole Program Optimization...
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Vector Calling Convention on channel 9
Recently we recorded a session for 'Vector Calling Convention' on Channel 9 , as part of the “Going Native” series. Vector calling convention is a new calling convention (specially for vector types)...
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Friday Videos: Going Native 2013
Going Native 2013 ended a few weeks ago, but the sessions live on in a series of videos on Channel 9. Don't have time for all of them? Here are some of the most-viewed sessions:Bjarne Stroustrup, The...
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Visual C++ Libraries Survey
The Visual C++ team wants to better understand how you use libraries in your day-to-day development work. Whether you’re publishing libraries, finding libraries that work on the Microsoft platforms for...
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Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available.Download Visual Studio 2013.Discover What's New for Visual Studio 2013.Read the formal announcement on Soma's blog.Check the system...
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The *New Performance Optimization Tool* for Visual C++ applications
Introduction As a part of the VS2013 preview release the 'Performance and Diagnostics Hub' was introduced. The Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) tool is a new performance optimization tool that...
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Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project
We are thrilled to announce PDB Project on the VS Gallery Extension. PDB Project, as the name suggest, takes information contained in the .pdb to create a C++ project. Information includes all source...
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The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration
The time spent in the link phase could be a significant portion of an applications overall build time for most large projects. A user can quickly determine this by adding the '/time' flag to the linker...
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Using Windows Azure Mobile Services from C++ Windows Store apps
Most good apps these days provide some kind of connected experience whether it is the ability to connect to existing popular web services (like Facebook, Twitter, SkyDrive etc.) or building their own...
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Microsoft Virtual Academy - C++: A General Purpose Language and Library
Interested in learning the basics of C++? Next Tuesday, November 19, Kate Gregory and James McNellis will be teaching a free introductory C++ course on Microsoft Virtual Academy, "C++: A General...
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Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch is here!
The worldwide launch of Visual Studio 2013 is today.Join Microsoft executives S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie, and Brian Harry at 7:00am PST for the keynote. Other events will follow throughout the day....
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Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in...
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Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename...
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C++ AMP to target Khronos SPIR and HSAIL
The Parallel Programming in Native Code blog recently announced Clang support for C++ AMP via LLVM backend. This is a key milestone in our commitment (as mentioned in Somasegar's blog) to share the C++...
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