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Thursday, Apr 19

C++: A Language for Modern Times
Watch this video interview with Herb Sutter of the Visual Studio team.
Thursday, Apr 5

Create Your First Metro Style App Using DirectX
Comlete these tutorials to learn to create a Metro style app with DirectX.
Thursday, Apr 5

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"How Do I?" Videos

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How Do I: Use the SysLink Control in MFC?
In this video, Jonathan Wood shows how to use the SysLink control, which allows you to easily place hyperlinks in a dialog box.

How Do I: Use the CComboBoxEx Control?
In this video, Jonathan Wood demonstrates how to use the CComboBoxEx class to create a combo box and associate an image with each item in the list.

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Featured Visual C++ Library Content

Important updates and highlights of Visual C++ content in the MSDN Library.

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Analyzing Application Quality by Using Code Analysis Tools (Visual Studio 11 Beta)
Learn about what's new in code... more
Friday, Apr 13

Static (C++) (Visual C++ 2011 Developer Preview)
The static keyword can be used... more
Friday, Apr 13

What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta
This topic contains links to i... more
Monday, Mar 19

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Visual C++ Team Blog

C++ Team Blog

C++ Build Throughput: Visual Studio 11 Pre-Release Compared to Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Hi my name is Li Shao. I am a Senior Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ group. In this blog, our team would like to review Visual Studio 11 (VS11) Desktop application build throughput ... more
Thursday, May 24 vcblog

Unit test framework in VS11
We provide the ability in Visual Studio 11 to do native unit testing, with a new C++ unit testing framework shipping in the box. We’re really happy to enable this support for our C++ developers, so yo... more
Wednesday, May 23 vcblog

Follow the Windows 8 Metro style event live
We are getting ready to start the event right now. Follow the twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ch9live The event will also be streaming live here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/... more
Friday, May 18 vcblog

The Metro style apps with C++ event is now a live webcast
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we announced the Metro style apps with C++ event. Since we announced the camp, there were a lot of requests for a live webcast. Thanks to Jaime who just posted on... more
Monday, May 7 vcblog

Auto-Vectorizer – New Posts
If you are interested in the Auto-Vectorizer feature, shipping in Visual Studio 11, please hop over to the Native Concurrency blog, where we are now on episode 4. The Overview post now includes a Tab... more
Wednesday, May 2 vcblog

Visual C++ 2008 MFC Feature Pack

MFC Classes Quick Guide (2008)

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Visual C++ Libraries Reference (2005)

Visual C++ Code Gallery Samples

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Metro style app samples - C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript
This sample pack includes all the Metro style app ... more
Tuesday, Sep 13 Official Windows SDK Sample

Official Visual Studio 2010 Samples for C# 4.0
These are the official samples for Visual Studio 2... more
Tuesday, Nov 29 Microsoft - Visual Studio Platform Team

101 LINQ Samples
Learn how to use LINQ in your applications with th... more
Thursday, Aug 11 Microsoft - Visual Studio Platform Team

ASP.NET MVC Application Using Entity Framework Code First
A Visual Studio project which shows how to use the... more
Tuesday, Apr 12 Tom Dykstra - MSFT

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Visual C++ Projects from CodePlex

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Interactive Gravitational Simulator
The Interactive Gravitational Simulator (IGS&#... more
Thursday, May 17 CodePlex

C++ AMP LAPACK Library
Project DescriptionC++ AMP LAPACK Library ... more
Thursday, May 17 CodePlex

Fast C++ Math Expression Parser
The C++ Mathematical Expression Library &#... more
Wednesday, May 16 CodePlex

C++ AMP FFT Library
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Tuesday, May 8 CodePlex

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