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September 2011 - C++ Team Blog

Asynchronous Operations in Windows 8 with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL)

September 27, 2011 Sep 27, 2011 09/27/11
Visual CPP Team
The Concurrency Runtime team is working on the next generation of the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that will help you consume asynchronous operations in your apps using a simpler development model than the one Windows 8 has built-in as part of its Windows Runtime.In that sense, they recently published a blog post explaining the rationale ...

Building Metro Style Apps with C++ and JavaScript

September 26, 2011 Sep 26, 2011 09/26/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, I’m Raman Sharma, a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As seen a few weeks ago at //BUILD, in the next version of Visual Studio you’ll be able to create Metro style app with Javascript. But this doesn't mean that Javascript is the only language you can use. There are several reasons to leverage compiled code as ...

C++11 Features in Visual C++ 11

September 12, 2011 Sep 12, 2011 09/12/11
Visual CPP Team
UPDATE - March 2, 2012: the range-based for-loop and override/final v1.0 have been implemented in VC11 Beta. There's a new C++ Standard and a new version of Visual C++, and it's time to reveal what features from the former we're implementing in the latter!Terminology notes: During its development, the new C++ Standard was (optimistically...