C++ AMP Specification

Hi Community, Microsoft just published the “C++ AMP Specification”, please feel free to download it from here. Cheers, Angel

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 […]

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 […]

Some new features in Windows 8 Developer Preview

Hi Community, I’m very excited about learning WinRT, in the same way I was some years ago while learning Win32 The upcoming releases of Windows & Visual C++ come with a bunch of cool technologies and new features. Some of these new features are available in  Windows 8 Developer Preview (as shown in  the images […]

Habemus C++ standard

Hi Community, I’m glad to announce that the ISO committee has officially published the new C++ Standard (C++11). Best Regards, Angel