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Microsoft's Safe Systems Programming Languages Effort | BDL198

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Microsoft's Safe Systems Programming Languages Effort | BDL198

5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

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

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

5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

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

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

5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

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

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

5/26/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

C++ development (ask us anything) | BDL162

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C++ development (ask us anything) | BDL162

5/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

WebView2: Bringing the best of the web to your native apps | BDL105

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WebView2: Bringing the best of the web to your native apps | BDL105

5/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

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C++ News

5/29/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Hiding C++ template parameter packs in a tuple

C++11 introduced variadic templates and template parameter packs. Passing template parameter packs around is a bit of a hassle, because the dots "soak up" parameters, which make them hard to...

4/22/2020, MS Dev Blogs

Finding build bottlenecks with C++ Build Insights

C++ Build Insights offers more than one way to investigate your C++ build times. In this article, we discuss two methods that you can use to identify bottlenecks in your builds: manually by using...

4/10/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5: Waiting synchronously from a thread that may already be the right thread

Last time, we looked at how we could build a delegate which, when invoked from a background thread, synchronously does work on a UI thread, but making the background thr

4/9/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4: Waiting synchronously from a background thread

Warning to those who stumbled onto this page: Don't use the code on this page without reading all the way to the end. This week, we assembled a function resume_synchrono

4/8/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.5

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and bett

4/8/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3: The other cases and why they aren't interesting

We've been looking at one specific case of a non-agile delegate, namely a delegate that is invoked on a background thread and wants to execute synchronously on a UI threa

4/7/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2: The synchronous coroutine

The post Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 2: The synchronous coroutine appeared first on Microsoft Developer Blogs.

4/6/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1: Initial plunge

The post Creating a non-agile delegate in C++/WinRT, part 1: Initial plunge appeared first on Microsoft Developer Blogs.

3/26/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

IntelliSense Code Linter for C++

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2, we're excited to announce a new preview feature to help C++ developers identify and fix code defects as they write code. Th

3/11/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

How can I create a type-dependent expression that is always false?

Giving a C++ lambda expression more than one operator() was an abuse of the language.¹ But one of the side effects of exploring ways to abuse the language is that durin

3/2/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

The Performance Benefits of Final Classes

The final specifier in C++ marks a class or virtual member function as one which cannot be derived from or overriden. For example, consider the following code: struc

2/28/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Should there be a standard C++ pattern for this? transform_to

I've got one type of collection and I want to apply a function to each member of the collection, thereby producing a new collection. Surely there's a standard pattern fo

1/10/2020, Microsoft Developer Blogs

Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

This blog post was written by Paul Maybee, a Principal Software Engineer on the C++ Cross-Platform Team. Accurate C++ IntelliSense requires access to the C++ headers