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C++ arrays can be weird...

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5/18/2022, Visual Studio Code

C++ arrays can be weird...

Persistent Representation of C++ for Fun and Profit

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5/2/2022, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Persistent Representation of C++ for Fun and Profit

Everything I learned about static analysis and program safety in C++

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5/2/2022, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Everything I learned about static analysis and program safety in C++

Cute C++ Tricks, Part 2 of N: More code you should learn from and never write

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5/2/2022, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Cute C++ Tricks, Part 2 of N: More code you should learn from and never write

What's New In C++23

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5/2/2022, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

What's New In C++23

Unreal Engine and Game Development in Visual Studio

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4/26/2022, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Unreal Engine and Game Development in Visual Studio

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C++ News

5/20/2022, MS Tech Community

Packaging a WSL Distro to MSIX

In this post I will demonstrate how to export a WSL distro to a .tar file, and how to use the WSL-DistroLauncher to package it to MSIX. In case you want to know more details about MSIX, or even...

5/20/2022, MS Tech Community

MSIX: Probably you don't know, but you are already using it

MSIX is the Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Windows apps. Follows some of the benefits of MSIX: Simplified installation: This format eliminates...

4/26/2022, MS Tech Community

SQL Server インストール時にインストールされるコンポーネントのサポート期限

こんにちは、 SQL Server サポートです。 SQL Server インストール時、様々なコンポーネントが同時にインストールされますが、バージョンによっては下位互換性を維持するため、すでに製品としてのサポートが終了しているコンポーネントが含まれており、そのコンポーネントのアンインストール可否やサポートについてのお問い合わせをいただくことがあります。図....

4/25/2022, MS Tech Community

Como manter meu código seguro usando o GitHub

Umas das práticas DevOps mais utilizadas pelos times ágeis é o CI/CD (Continuous Integration e Continuous Delivery) onde os times têm a capacidade de entregar uma nova versão do seu software de...

3/11/2022, MS Tech Community

The Semantic Lakehouse with Azure Databricks and Power BI

This post was authored by Kyle Hale, a Solutions Architect at Databricks. If you’re a BI practitioner, this diagram (and others like it) may be intimately familiar to you: The “BI stack” is...

2/28/2022, MS Tech Community

SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Native Spatial Implementation(s)

Moved from: bobsql.com Spatial data is among, if not the fastest, growing storage types for the SQL Server database. It is common place for customers to have 3,000,000 or more rows in a...

2/21/2022, MS Tech Community

SQL Server on IoT Edge and Developer Machines – Smaller Footprint

Moved from: bobsql.com SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the...

2/2/2022, MS Dev Blogs

Gotcha: C++/WinRT weak_ref.get() doesn’t get the weak reference; it gets the strong reference

If you have a winrt::com_ptr<T>, you can call the get() method to obtain the raw COM pointer inside it. This is handy if you need to pass that raw pointer along to another method that wants raw...

2/1/2022, MS Dev Blogs

GSL 4.0.0 is Available Now

Version 4.0.0 of Microsoft’s implementation of the C++ Core Guidelines Support Library (GSL) is now available for you to download on the releases page. This release maintains the safety...

1/26/2022, MS Dev Blogs

What are these weird internal Visual C++ runtime functions named NLG?

If you’re looking at dump files or doing live debugging, you may encounter functions whose names begin with NLG: _NLG_Notify, _NLG_Notify1, _NLG_Dispatch, _NLG_Return, _NLG_Return2¹ and a few...

1/26/2022, MS Tech Community

Student Ambassador community voices: Learnings from 2021 and new beginnings

We asked Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors to tell us about their biggest accomplishments and biggest lessons learned last year, as well as their aspirations for this year. Responses have...

1/21/2022, MS Dev Blogs

Fixing the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation

Last time, we looked at a crash that was root-caused to an order of evaluation bug if compiled as C++14. One solution to the problem is to switch to C++17 mode, but presumably the customer isn’t...

1/18/2022, MS Tech Community

Book Info + Reviews: "Learn to Program with Small Basic" by Dr. Majed Marji & Ed Price

"Learn to Program with Small Basic" launched on May 2nd, 2016! This blog post thoroughly covers the book, and it also houses excerpts from the various book reviews, so this page will be evolving...

1/17/2022, MS Dev Blogs

C# and C++ type aliases and their consequences

The C# and C++ language provide ways to introduce shorter names for things. These shortcuts are not full objects in themselves; they merely let one name be used as a shorthand for the other...

1/14/2022, MS Dev Blogs

Resolving confusion over how to return from a C++ coroutine

A customer was having trouble writing a coroutine using C++/WinRT. This function compiled successfully: winrt::IAsyncOperation<bool> HelperFunction() { /* no other co_return statements */...

1/13/2022, MS Dev Blogs

How we used C++20 to eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs

C++20 is here and has been supported in MSVC since 16.11, but today’s post is not about how you can use it, but rather how we used it to effectively eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs by...

1/13/2022, MS Dev Blogs

The oracle always tells the truth, even when it is wrong: COM method calls with a user-defined type as a return value

COM method calls follow the STDMETHODCALLTYPE calling convention, which is defined to be __stdcall. And the COM ABI for the layout of the virtual method call table was carefully chosen so that it...

1/12/2022, MS Tech Community

Deploy Teams media optimization with Intune Proactive Remediation to Windows 365

The Microsoft Windows 365 provides all the benefits of Windows, without any of the traditional hardware limitations. It is the most optimized Microsoft 365 powered compute experience delivered...

1/12/2022, MS Tech Community

Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing - Part 2

So, how is cloud architecture evolving? In this latest installment of the Armchair Architects series of the Azure Enablement Show, we discuss the evolution of cloud architecture for four...

1/12/2022, MS Tech Community

Armchair Architects: How Architecture Is Changing - Part 1

So, how is cloud architecture evolving? In this latest installment of the Armchair Architects series of the Azure Enablement Show, we discuss the evolution of cloud architecture for four...