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Overview .NET is great platform, it speeds up the development process, you deal with your application logic and in most cases you don't need to know that there is whole Windows operating system down there. However sometimes you do need to program against Windows without the .NET assistance. As a Windows developer, you need to keep all your weapons ready, be it .NET, COM or C++ with the native Win32 API. In this article I am going to show how to deal with Windows Message based communication protocol...
תגים:C++/CLI, C++, VC, Win32, Interop, C#, DEV, Windows 7, Visual Studio, VS 2010, CPP/CLI, CodeValue, Windows
I’ve had the chance to take part in the last BUILD conference. It is true that you don’t have to travel to the other side of the world to get the new knowledge. You can follow the tweets, read the blogs and watch the online videos. However being at the conference gives you the opportunity and time to be focused and the ability to meet people and build your perception about the future of the current and new technologies. And there is a lot to think about: The future of Windows, The future of .NET...
תגים:C++, Windows Server 2008, DEV, Windows 7, User Group, Parallel, Future, CodeValue, Build, C++ 11, AMP
You didn't have to go to //BUILD/ to get the information and knowledge of the new Windows Platform APIs; you could watch all the sessions from the comfort of your home, and I encourage you to do so, however attending the conference helps obtaining a perception about the future of Microsoft and especially the future of Windows technologies and the reaction of the developers that attended the conference. I didn't want to post about the conference before I have a clear picture, and believe me...
תגים:C++/CLI, C++, Win32, COM, MFC, C#, DEV, conference, Silverlight, CPP/CLI, C++ Renaissance, Microsoft, Windows 8, WinRT, Build, C++ 11
C++ is coming back, it will be in the focus of the next Microsoft Build event and also in our next meeting of the Windows Platform Developer User Group. On this Wednesday (the 7th) we will hold a WPDUG meeting in Microsoft’s offices in Ra’anana (Israel). Our first session will be about adding realtime and deterministic capabilities to Windows and its impact on the system and the ways to program such a system (all based on addons by a company called TenAsys ). The second session will demonstrate useful...
I have just received a mail telling me that I am continued to be a C++ MVP , 6 year in a row. I am happy to be C++ MVP. Although I am doing a lot of .NET and C# developing, I am also continue to have C++ project, Win32 and COM and I am doing a lot of interop. I have also taught several C++ classes this year including Advanced Windows Debugging Techniques and Windows Concurrent Programming in the Multi-Core Era with the new concurrent runtime and libraries of VC++ 10. The rumors say that C++ will...
At the beginning of 2005 Herb Sutter had an article stating that the developer’s free lunch is over. We had an assumption that more transistors in the CPU imply better application execution speed. The CPU executes the code in a sequential manner hence the performance of the CPU-bound code is directly related to CPU frequency. This used to be our “Free Lunch”: an old program runs faster on a new CPU. Using this assumption with modern low power consumption multi-core CPUs is wrong, we might even find...
Visual Studio 2010 brings back the power of C++. The new language capabilities and optimized STL libraries, the developers productivity as well as the resulting executable performance are much higher. In this post I’d like to present one of the abilities of the ConcRT Asynchronous Agents Library. Agent is based on the Actor Model and is one of the building block of a Concurrent Dataflow Network. The idea behind the Asynchronous Agent Library is that you build a network from agents and message blocks...
In the last Dev Academy I have given a lecture in the TDM (R&D Manager) track about Software Porting, The Why, When, and How. During the lecture I have talked about many different migration scenarios: from VB 6.0 to C#/VB.NET. From VC++ 6.0 to VC 2008/2010, From Unix/Linux to Windows, From old .NET to new .NET etc. I have talked about the porting project, best practices and tools. This is the link to the lecture’s slides. There are many useful links inside it. This is the link to the lecture...
When we look at the mobile phone market, can we project from it about the future of software? Is Windows 8 going to be a closed system? Will we as developers need to upload all our applications to an App-Store or Marketplaces ? Will we have Multitasking? Let's look at the iPad, a big iPhone or better a big iPod? Let's say that it will sell more than Windows PC based Tablets . What does it say to Microsoft? Microsoft has pushed the tablet idea since the release of Windows XP tablet edition...
תגים:C++, C#, DEV, Home Automation, TECH, Phone, OFFTOPIC, XNA, Future, iPad, iPhone, Silverlight
One of the new features of VS 2010 is the new Help system. During the MVP Summit we have introduced to the new system which has very good foundation, but the viewer that comes with VS 2010 is lack of many features that we used to have and loved such as the TOC, Index, Synch TOC, etc. Fortunately there is a tool ( H3Viewer ) that provides the missing features: In the site you can also find the mshcMigrate tool that enable the migration of old MS Help files to the new platform. ...
In the last Dev Academy I have given a lecture in the TDM (R&D Manager) track about Software Porting, The Why, When, and How. During the lecture I have talked about many different migration scenarios: from VB 6.0 to C#/VB.NET. From VC++ 6.0 to VC 2008/2010, From Unix/Linux to Windows, From old .NET to new .NET etc. I have talked about the porting project, best practices and tools. This is the link to the lecture’s slides. There are many useful links inside it.
Don’t forget to come today to the WPD user group to hear Sasha & Gadi . Gadi is going to talk about parallel programming and Sasha is going to talk about developing native application with the next version of Visual Studio. We are lucky to have two very talented lecturers in one evening. This is the agenda for today: Agenda 17:00-17:30 Gathering 17:30-17:45 PDC Essentials – Alon Fliess 17:45-19:00 Introduction to the parallel world – Gad J. Meir 19:00-19:15 Break 19:15...
תגים:C++, Win32, C++0x, Sela, PDC, DEV, Windows 7, Debbug, User Group, WPD, Parallel, Visual Studio
Thanks for all of you that despite the traffic jams, made it and came to the first meeting. And thanks again for your feedbacks, all of them were excellent! Here are the links for the resources that we talked about: Windows 7 Training Kit Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit – The kit contains the MFC labs for the Windows 7 features XP2Win7 – stay tuned for a new release next week, or two. Removing the Kernel Dispatcher lock by Arun Kishan Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows...
תגים:C++/CLI, C++, VC, MVP, Win32, Internal, COM+, COM, Interop, MFC, C++0x, C#, DEV, Server 2008 R2, Server Core, Windows 7, Multitouch, Multi-touch, Taskbar, Shell Libraries, Sensor and Location, Ribbon, Debbug, Windows Internals, XP2Win7, User Group
Come and join Pavel and me to the first meeting of the Windows Platform Developers user group . If the Windows platform is interesting you (and it probably does, otherwise you won’t be reading this post) you have to come. This is the chance to influence the spirit of the group. Pavel and I wanted to have a group for people like us. Those who develop for Windows with any needed tool, not just .NET or C++ but both and even more. The first meeting will be about Windows NT 6.1, this is the shortest way...
תגים:C++/CLI, C++, VC, Vista, MVP, Win32, Windows Server 2008, Internal, COM+, COM, Interop, MFC, C++0x, C#, DEV, Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Debbug, Windows Internals, Dump, User Group
We are going to the PDC . And when I say we, I mean 17 experts and 3 managers from Sela . This year we are going to be in all sessions and meet many key professionals from Microsoft and other companies. We will also have a booth . Why do I tell you that? Not just to tell you that it is fun to work at Sela (It is, but it is also very demanding) and that we are investing in our people, but to announce that we are going to talk about all current and new technologies that will be revealed in the PDC...
תגים:C++, MVP, Win32, Windows Server 2008, Internal, WCF, WPF, SOA, C++0x, Sela, C#, PDC, Windows Azure, DEV, C# 4.0, WF, Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Internals, conference
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