Visual Studio "4" CTP – General Availability

Hi Community, Microsoft has announced the general availability for Visual Studio “14” CTP Today. There are quite a few interesting features, in both native and managed languages. Please find below some resources about this release: Release Notes Visual Studio “14” CTP now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery Visual Studio “14” CTP Visual Studio […]

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Presentation material “Developing Windows 8 Apps”

Hi community, Please find below the presentation material from Today’s session. Regards, Angel [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%215177&authkey=AItKk-jONueKqNM” width=”98″ height=”120″”]

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements as an mvp mentor

Hi Community, I would like to invite you to a couple of sessions I’ll present in the next couple of weeks, please find the details below: Developing Windows 8 Apps Developing Windows Azure Apps I look forward to seeing you there Regards, Angel

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MICROSOFT MVP COMCAMP 2014 – SYDNEY (Presentation material)

Hi Community, Please find below the demo code and slide deck I used at “Microsoft MVP ComCamp 2014 – Sydney” Yesterday afternoon. [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=2FE1291768841ACE&resid=2FE1291768841ACE%214676&authkey=AGyXU0rbpyff6q8″ width=”98″ height=”120″]   Regards, Angel

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Microsoft Visual C++ Award for 2014

Hi community, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with an MVP recognition once again in the Visual C++ category. This is my ninth consecutive time as an MVP award recipient. As many of you must know, I used to be an ASP/ASP.NET MVP until 2009 (This is my fourth […]

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Microsoft Visual C++ MVP Award for 2013

G’day Community, Firstly, I’d like to wish you all a happy new year 2013, full of health, blessings & success Secondly, I’m happy to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with an MVP (9th consecutive year) in the Visual C++ category, therefore I’d like to thank God, community & fellow developers,Microsoft and the MVP Program. […]

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Traversing a DOM tree and workaround for reading attribute value in WinRT with Visual C++

Hi Community, As a follow up to my previous post. This one shows how to execute an XPATH query, loop through the nodes returned by the query, how to use a lambda to retrieve the attributes from a given node but most importantly, how to read the attribute’s value… Yes, you read the last point […]

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How to locate and replace special characters in an XML string with Visual C++ and WinRT

Hi Community, I hope you all had a well-deserved Christmas break  A couple of days ago I began writing an article for MSDN Magazine. The article is about Metro, Windows 8 and interop between Win32  and WinRT. One of the most frequent and error prone operation is “String manipulation”, due to the possibility of a […]

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