Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse Friday of future versions of the company’s Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates will ...

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Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 IDE (integrated development environment) so that Windows application developers can use parts of the latest version of the programming ...

Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE. The Feature Pack ...

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With the release candidate for the latest version of its Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft is offering better C/C++ operations and has fixed a number of performance issues. Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, ...

C++ AMP technology links C++ to GPU and is expected to become part of the next Visual C++ compiler and integrated with Visual Studio Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition. Microsoft® Visual C++® 6.0 is a development environment for the C++ programming language. It contains tools for developing ...

I'm porting a Visual C++ project that is primarily being developed on a 32 bit Windows, to a 64 bit one. I'm having a problem getting Visual Studio to pick the right version of the Windows SDK ...

Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). “What we see is more and more people are ...