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TechEd Europe Demo Session - Face-Lifting MFC Applications on Windows 7
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Monday, Nov 23

Improvements to Find all references in Visual Studio 2010
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Tuesday, Nov 17

Visual C++ Precompiled Header Errors on Windows 7
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Thursday, Nov 12

Steps to Open Actionable Bugs
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Visual C++ Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010
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Using SecAnnotate to Analyze Your Assemblies for Transparency Violations
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Friday, Nov 20

New samples in Win 7 SDK: Direct2D and DirectWrite
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Tuesday, Oct 20

Building web services on Windows with C++
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Tuesday, Oct 20

Development with Windows SDK & DirectX SDK when Visual Studio 2008 is installed
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Thursday, Oct 15

Win SDK Hidden Gems: Function Discovery Browser (fdbrowser.exe)
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Monday, Oct 12

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MFC: Integrating your application with the Windows Restart Manager
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MFC: Implementing handlers for preview, thumbnail and search filtering
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Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 - MFC and Windows 7
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Wednesday, Oct 21 by Charles

Stephan T. Lavavej: Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr
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Monday, Oct 19 by Charles

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Windows Web Services
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Wednesday, Nov 4

All-In-One Code Framework (CodeFx)
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Monday, Oct 12

Scenario
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Monday, Oct 12

Loading resources from .Net and MUI binaries in Visual C++
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Friday, Oct 9

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ATL Concepts (Visual C++ 2008)
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Saturday, Nov 14

Optimizing Your Code (Visual C++ 2010 Beta)
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Examples of Lambda Expressions (Visual C++ 2010 Beta)
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