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C++11 Conformance Survey
we want to check which features you think are more urgent for your needs to make sure we are in fact... more

C++ AMP Open Specification published
We reached another milestone, that delivers on the promise we made in June 2011 when we introduced C... more

Asynchronous Programming in C++ Using PPL
New in Visual Studio 2012, the task class of the PPL allows you to succinctly represent an individua... more

Bjarne Stroustrup Keynote: C++11 Style
Thoughts on what "Modern C++" should mean in the 2010s.

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C++ Precon at Tech Ed 2012 – Orlando and Amsterdam
At both Tech Ed North America 2012 (June 11th-14th) and Tech Ed Europe 2012 (June 26th-29th) there will be a C++ all day preconference! The title is C... more
Saturday, Feb 18 vcblog

Help Us Make Improvements
The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team is looking for developers to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and librarie... more
Wednesday, Feb 15 vcblog

GoingNative 2012 Online
Thanks to everyone who came to Redmond and/or watched online to participate in Going Native 2012, last week’s global C++-fest. It was a lot of fun, an... more
Thursday, Feb 9 vcblog

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Analyzing Application Quality by Using Code Analysis Tools (Visual C++ 2011 Developer Preview)
Static analysis for C++ has been updated to provide richer error context information, more a... more
Friday, Feb 3

Code Snippets (Visual C++ 2011 Developer Preview)
Select a skeleton code snippet, such as switch, if-else, or for loop from the List Members drop-down... more
Friday, Jan 6

List Members Enhancements: Using IntelliSense (Visual C++ 2011 Developer Preview)
List Members Enhancements: The List Members drop-down appears automatically as you type code into th... more
Sunday, Dec 11

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Resources

	Hilo: Windows 7 C++ Development “Hilo” is a series of articles and sample applications that show how you can leverage the power of Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, and Visual C++.
	Visual C++ MVP Blogs Blog posts from the Visual C++ MVPs.
	Windows Developer Center At the Windows Developer Center, you can learn all about developing on Windows.
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	Previous Versions of Visual C++ Find the details about previous versions of Visual C++.
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