Sridhar Poduri's Blog, page 5
September 28, 2012
Learning C++ /CX with a console app
Most of the samples on MSDN and the project templates that ship with Visual Studio 2012 contain a lot of generated code and it is easy to get lost. If you want a simple project template that allows you to code “Hello World” style code samples and learn the language, then this project template is for you.
Please download it, install and use it. Feel free to share it with your colleagues, friends, co-workers etc and drop me a line via the comments box below this post on feedback, likes/dislikes etc.
-Sridhar
Link to template on VS Gallery: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8116acc4-747b-4330-bfd1-fce04d798f4a
September 23, 2012
The power and flexibility of C++ or why you should write C++ apps for Windows 8 and beyond :-)
Last Friday, the C++ team in Redmond released source code for “Project Austin” a skunk works project that is essentially a note taking app. Check out the team’s announcement blog here.
This app is one great example of the power of C++ allowing you to code in a largely ISO-C++ code base and then interface with the Windows Runtime API. The app uses the XAML-DX SwapChainBackgroundPanel type and uses XAML to layer UI elements over the “main Window”. It also uses C++AMP and extensively uses DirectX and all of the native goodness that is present in C++ and Windows 8.
I could go on and on but I would defer you to the blog post above. And yes, all this goodness in graphics, performance, inking etc without the overhead of GC.
Enjoy!