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 […]

Microsoft Visual C++ MVP Award for 2012

G’day community, Firstly, I’d like to wish you all a happy new year 2012, full of health, blessings & success Secondly, I’m happy to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with an MVP (8th consecutive year) in the Visual C++ category, therefore I’d like to thank God, community & fellow developers, Microsoft and the MVP […]

TechEd 2011– Session Recording

Hi Community, Please find below the session recording for my presentation at Teched.  You can check it out on Channel 9 too Best Regards, Angel

TechEd 2011 presentation material

Hi community, Please feel free to download the presentation material & demos here. Enjoy your TechEd experience! Best Regards, Angel

Carmichael’s numbers generator – C#

Hi community, Please find below a code snippet I wrote last night for generating the Carmichael’s numbers. This demo was written in C# and it implements TPL to take advantage of multiple processors. It is intended to be demoed at Tech-Ed Australia along with its counterpart written in C++ implementing PPL. See you in two […]

I’ll be speaking at TechEd Australia 2011

Hi Community, I would like to let you know that I’ll be presenting at TechEd Australia about “Making the most of .NET with C++ for interop, performance and productivity” Stay tuned! Regards, Angel

Why C++ Still Matters

Hi Community, I would like to share with you this article on C++  Editor’s Note – MSDN Magazine July 2011 Regards, Angel

Targeting Windows 7: Light up features with Visual C++ 2010

Hi Community, Please find here the slide deck & demos used in today’s webcast. Regards, Angel

Memory Inspector

  Hi Community, please find here an Add-In I just published for Visual Studio on Visual Studio Gallery. It’s called “Memory Inspector” and in a few words…  “it’s a tool for analyzing memory usage and allocations made by an application and its dependent modules. It also allows to collect  information about the memory use at […]

Bonafide Ideas is live!!!

  After being through hectic times, my new site “Bonafide Ideas” is live!!!. I’m going to keep my old blog but most or everything new will be posted on this one. Please welcome and I hope that the material posted here is helpful to you… Let’s write some code!!!