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During the night (GMT + 1) from 14/03/2012 to 15/03/2012 my hosting provider will be migrating the server. I don’t suspect any issues during the migration, and want to excuse myself for the downtime.
Finally, even better news regarding Windows Phone: C++ support!
To my joy I stumbled on a dutch article regarding C++ support for the next version of Windows Phone, probably WP8. For some of you interested, you can read me complaining about the lack of C++ support on my Frenzic for WP7 page. Looking at the user-voice page I was not the only developer requesting this, as it holds the 4th place in the list.
2011 is almost over, and I realize it has been a while since I blogged. You may wonder what I’ve been doing; I’m working on a new game. That’s all I can say right now, but expect some updates soon!
Most important, what’s coming up. Next to the new game updates, I have some interesting topics in mind:
- Exposing data over web services (WCF) and consuming them in native C++ on Windows (WWSAPI) and thin clients (ASP.NET).
A video tutorial about setting up some database with highscores and exposing that data through a webservice. I will show how to consume that data in a native C++ client on windows, and have some playtime in ASP.NET for thin clients. - C++11 pointers; To be shared, to be unique or to be weak, that’s the question.
I often get the question when to use which type of smart pointer. I’m planning an article describing std::unique_ptr<T>, std::shared_ptr<T> and std::weak_ptr<T> with some practical examples.
Now that we start using the name C++11 instead of C++0x, the MS Visual C++ team announced the features set in Visual Studio vNext regarding this new standard. Take a quick look at the table, and I think you will have the same feeling as I do, disappointed!
A good year ago I did some particles, and even for a developer I liked it a lot.
I often find myself in a situation where I want to share some knowledge or idea with the world, but to do so I should add tons of screenshots to make it understandable. So why not create a video, plain and simple? Off course the content is the most important, but I’m pretty sure a good presentation makes it even better!
So what do you think? Could this be a video intro?
You can suggest Visual Studio features at the Visual Studio UserVoice website. I agree with some out there, but sometimes disagree or miss some useful things. This is a personal list, oriented to C++ and C# – the 2 languages I use the most in VS2010.
Microsoft released a sneak previous on the visual studio blog about some new IDE features coming in Visual Studio vNext. Let’s start with those first:
I bumped into some old work today, being a school project with a couple of colleague students a couple of years ago. We had the awesome plan to create a multiplayer race shooter in 5 months (not full time, only 1 class of 5 in total) with 7 developers.
Those who know me know I am a Microsoft power user. Windows 7 is a great operating system, I love developing in Visual C++ and C#.NET, … Some, by reading the title, may suspect I want to migrate to Apple because I am sick of the blue screens, viruses and what have you, but no. I am going to bring you a whole other story:
There is some pretty interesting discussion going on at DaeXp forums (dutch).
The problem someone has is that C++ template code should be inlined in the header. If you want to publish a static library, this source code will be available and free to use by everyone who wants to…
I found a very interesting blog about advanced C++ and C++0x. They have some very nice articles about the in and outs of C++.
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