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Ask the Team: C++ Development with Visual Studio | COM15

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5/27/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Ask the Team: C++ Development with Visual Studio | COM15

Microsoft's Safe Systems Programming Languages Effort | BDL198

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5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Microsoft's Safe Systems Programming Languages Effort | BDL198

Level-up your C++ productivity using Visual Studio | INT173A

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5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Level-up your C++ productivity using Visual Studio | INT173A

Expert Q&A: WinRTC Open Source WebRTC Library | COM51

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5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Expert Q&A: WinRTC Open Source WebRTC Library | COM51

Expert Q&A: C#/C++/Rust WinRT Team | COM36

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5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Expert Q&A: C#/C++/Rust WinRT Team | COM36

C++ development (ask us anything) | BDL162

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5/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

C++ development (ask us anything) | BDL162

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C++ News

10/20/2020,

Developing Secure Coding in Azure Sphere

"How do you develop secure code?" I've been asked this a lot recently and it is time for a blog post as the public and various parts of Microsoft have gotten a glimpse of how much Azure Sphere...

9/17/2020, MS Dev Blogs

The C++/WinRT “capture” function helps you interoperate with the COM ABI world

C++/WinRT is a freestanding library that is not dependent upon any Windows operating system header files. You are welcome to stay completely in the C++/WinRT world, but it's not uncommon to have...

9/16/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Why did I lose the ability to co_await a std::future and concurrency::task?

After upgrading to version 2.0.200729.8 of C++/WinRT, some customers reported that they lost the ability to co_await a std::future or a Concurrency::task. What happened? The relevant change is...

9/16/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Happy 20th Birthday CMake!

CMake is now 20! Kitware posted yesterday an interview with Bill Hoffman, the original creator for CMake and shared that August 31 was CMake's 20th birthday Here, in the C++ team, we are not...

9/7/2020, Azure DevOps Podcast

Bob Martin on Agile and Extreme Programming - Episode 105

In today’s episode, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by a really exciting guest; Robert C Martin, better known as Uncle Bob Martin! If you don’t already know Bob, he is a software engineer,...

9/4/2020, MS Dev Blogs

New safety rules in C++ Core Check

Rust and C++ are two popular systems programming languages. For years, the focus of C++ has been on performance. We are increasingly hearing calls from customers and security resea

9/3/2020, MS Dev Blogs

<bit> in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 2

C++20 added two new library features for those of you that like bit twiddling: “bit rotating and counting functions” and “integral power of two operations”. Most of the added function templates...

8/28/2020, MS Dev Blogs

How do I convert from the C++/WinRT projection type to the C++/WinRT implementation type?

Last time, we looked at converting from the C++/WinRT implementation type to the corresponding C++/WinRT projection type. Going from the projection back to the impl

8/27/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Introducing vcperf /timetrace for C++ build time analysis

The following blog post was written by guest author Carlos Fraguas from Mercury Steam Entertainment. He describes how he used the C++ Build Insights SDK to add the new /timetrace option in <a...

8/13/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Introducing source dependency reporting with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7

C++20 demands a lot more from the ecosystem than ever before. With C++20 Modules on the horizon the compiler needs to work closely with project systems in order to provide rich information for...

8/3/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Sign Up for the Private Preview of Visual Studio support for Codespaces!

At the Microsoft Build conference, you may have seen our C++ Codespaces demo (at 26:00). We showed several ways Codespaces can improve your C++ development experience, including offloading your...

7/24/2020,

Build Raspberry Pi .NET Core IoT Apps running for Raspberry Pi OS & Ubuntu on ARM32 and ARM64

#JulyOT This is part of the #JulyOT IoT Tech Community series, a collection of blog posts, hands-on-labs, and videos designed to demonstrate and teach developers how to build projects with...

7/24/2020, MS Dev Blogs

C++/WinRT doesn’t let your coroutine cheat death, but it does get to say good-bye

I noted in a footnote that it's important to use RAII types for all of your cleanup in a coroutine because cancellation will cause the coroutine to abruptly stop executing at the next suspension...

7/23/2020, MS Dev Blogs

How to get your C++/WinRT asynchronous operations to respond more quickly to cancellation, part 2

We saw last time that you can hasten the cancellation of your C++/WinRT coroutine by polling for cancellation. But that works only if it's the top-level coroutine that needs to respond to the...

7/14/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template, the noexcept complication

Last time, we put together a little traits class to decompose a function pointer into its components. But one thing missing from our class is the noexcept qualifier. For the remainder of the...

7/13/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Deconstructing function pointers in a C++ template

I always forget how to deconstruct a function pointer type in a C++ template, so I'm writing it down. We start by saying that FunctionTraits is a template class that takes a single type...

7/10/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Cancelling a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation, part 8: C++/WinRT, revised

Some time ago, we observed that C++/WinRT relies on the ABI result from the GetResults() method to report cancellation. This is different from how task cancellation is projected in C# and...

7/3/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Cancelling a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation, part 3: C++/CX with PPL, coroutine style

Last time, we looked at how task cancellation is projected in C++/CX with PPL and explicit continuations. But how about C++/CX with PPL and coroutines? Notice that coroutines save us a lot of...

7/2/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Cancelling a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation, part 2: C++/CX with PPL, explicit continuation style

We began our investigation of Windows Runtime cancellation with how task cancellation is projected in C#. But how about C++/CX with PPL and explicit continuations? Okay, let's do this. Setting...

7/2/2020, MS Dev Blogs

C++20 Features and Fixes in VS 2019 16.1 through 16.6

What's New We've been busy implementing C++20 features in MSVC's compiler and Standard Library, and migrating the latter to microsoft/STL on GitHub - in fact, we've been so busy that we haven't...