March 2013

Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3

Roberto Sonnino - MSFT March 26, 2013 Mar 26, 2013 03/26/13

As we promised a few weeks ago, welcome to the first post in a series where we’ll explore a full end-to-end app developed with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. During this series we’ll develop a 3D dice roller that allows you to roll a 6-sided die by tapping or clicking it. In the process of rolling a number, the die will jump and...

Visual C++ Developer Survey

Sumit Kumar (MSFT) March 22, 2013 Mar 22, 2013 03/22/13

Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development in organizations like yours. If you have 15 minutes (maybe less), I would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts in our survey at https...

Connecting to Facebook with the C++ REST SDK

Andy Rich March 21, 2013 Mar 21, 2013 03/21/13

Hi, this is Andy Rich from the C++ QA team. Previously, I showed you how you can use the C++ REST API to connect to Live services, but this is just one of many web services that you can use the REST API with. In this blog post, I will walk you through creating a Windows 8 Store App that will log a user into Facebook and download ...

Advanced Developers Conference 2013: C++

Eric Battalio March 11, 2013 Mar 11, 2013 03/11/13

The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, debugging, creating and consuming cloud services, performance and much more. Here are a couple session descriptions cribbed from the ADC site to whet your appetite: There is still plenty of time...

Guest Post – The Expression Evaluator

OfekShilon March 7, 2013 Mar 7, 2013 03/7/13

Hi. My name is Ofek Shilon and I blog mostly about various VC++ tricks I come by. Today I’d like to explicitly introduce a debugging feature we all use daily but seldom refer to it by name – the native expression evaluator (abbreviated EE below). The Basics Every time you use the Watch window, a lot is going on behind the scenes. ...

Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK

Andy Rich March 4, 2013 Mar 4, 2013 03/4/13

Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Last week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). This blog post will walk you through using the C++ REST SDK to connect your Windows Store apps to Windows Live services. This example ...

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March 2013 | C++ Team Blog

Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3

Visual C++ Developer Survey

Connecting to Facebook with the C++ REST SDK

Advanced Developers Conference 2013: C++

Guest Post – The Expression Evaluator

Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK

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