Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2012

The only book to teach C++ programming with Microsoft Visual Studio!

There's a reason why Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ books dominate the marketplace. Ivor Horton has a loyal following who love his winning approach to teaching programming languages, and in this fully updated new edition, he repeats his successful formula. Offering a comprehensive introduction to both the standard C++ language and to Visual C++, he offers step-by-step programming exercises, examples, and solutions to deftly guide novice programmers through the ins and outs of C++ development.

• Introduces novice programmers to the current standard, Microsoft Visual C++ 2012, as it is implemented in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
• Focuses on teaching both the C++11 standard and Visual C++ 2012, unlike virtually any other book on the market
• Covers the C++ language and library and the IDE
• Delves into new features of both the C++11 standard and of the Visual C++ 2012 programming environment
• Features C++ project templates, code snippets, and more

Even if you have no previous programming experience, you'll soon learn how to build real-world applications using Visual C++ 2012 with this popular guide.

C++ AMP: Accelerated Massive Parallelism with Microsoft Visual C++

Capitalize on the faster GPU processors in today’s computers with the C++ AMP code library—and bring massive parallelism to your project. With this practical book, experienced C++ developers will learn parallel programming fundamentals with C++ AMP through detailed examples, code snippets, and case studies. Learn the advantages of parallelism and get best practices for harnessing this technology in your applications.

Discover how to:

• Gain greater code performance using graphics processing units (GPUs)
• Choose accelerators that enable you to write code for GPUs
• Apply thread tiles, tile barriers, and tile static memory
• Debug C++ AMP code with Microsoft Visual Studio®
• Use profiling tools to track the performance of your code

C++ and Beyond 2012

C++ and Beyond 2012: Alexandrescu, Meyers, and Sutter - Ask Us Anything

C++ and DirectX for Metro Style Games

DirectX, the most popular 3-D game API, is directly accessible by Windows 8 metro-style applications in C++. If you have a C++/Direct3D codebase, or want to create a 3-D game, this talk will show you how to use C++ and DirectX to build metro-style apps. You will also learn about new Windows 8 metro features like process lifetime management, CoreWindow, asynchronous execution, live tiles, and display rotation, and the latest 'best practices' for their use from the perspective of C++/DirectX game development.

Overview (C++/CX)

Visual C++ component extensions (C++/CX) is a set of extensions to the C++ language that enable the creation of Windows Metro style apps and Windows Runtime components in an idiom that is much simpler and more natural than the traditional COM programming model. Use C++/CX to write Metro style apps and easily interact with Visual C#, Visual Basic, and JavaScript, and other languages that support the Windows Runtime. In those rare cases that require direct access to the raw COM interfaces, or non-exceptional code, you can use the Windows Runtime C++ Template Library.

Read the document Overview (C++/CX) in msdn.microsoft.com.

New standard of C++ - ISO/IEC 14882:2011

ISO/IEC 14882:2011, new standard of C++ programming language, revise ISO/IEC 14882:2003 and target to publish at 2012-02-28.

ISO/IEC 14882:2011 specifies requirements for implementations of the C++ programming language. The first such requirement is that they implement the language, and so ISO/IEC 14882:2011 also defines C++. Other requirements and relaxations of the first requirement appear at various places within ISO/IEC 14882:2011.

C++ is a general purpose programming language based on the C programming language as specified in ISO/IEC 9899:1999. In addition to the facilities provided by C, C++ provides additional data types, classes, templates, exceptions, namespaces, operator overloading, function name overloading, references, free store management operators, and additional library facilities.

ISO/IEC 14882:2011

ISO/IEC standard C++, CLR, CLI and C++/CLI

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language. Originally named C with Classes, the language was later renamed C++ in 1983.

C++ is one of the most popular programming languages with application domains including systems software (such as Microsoft Windows), application software, device drivers, embedded software, high-performance server and client applications, and entertainment software such as video games. Several groups provide both free and proprietary C++ compiler software, including the GNU Project, Microsoft, Intel and Embarcadero Technologies. C++ has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C# and Java.

C++ is also used for hardware design, where the design is initially described in C++, then analyzed, architecturally constrained, and scheduled to create a register-transfer level hardware description language via high-level synthesis.

The language began as enhancements to C, first adding classes, then virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling among other features. After years of development, the C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998. The standard was amended by the 2003 technical corrigendum, ISO/IEC 14882:2003. The current standard extending C++ with new features was ratified and published by ISO in September 2011 as ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (informally known as C++11).

-- Reference:

• Wikipedia - C++
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 - The C++ Standards Committee

CLR(Common Language Runtime) is the virtual machine component of Microsoft's .NET framework and is responsible for managing the execution of .NET programs. In a process known as just-in-time (JIT) compilation, the CLR compiles the intermediate language code known as CIL into the machine instructions that in turn are executed by the computer's CPU. The CLR provides additional services including memory management, type safety and exception handling. All programs written for the .NET framework, regardless of programming language, are executed by the CLR.
The CLR is Microsoft's implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard.

-- Reference:

• Wikipedia - Common Language Runtime

CLI(Common Language Infrastructure) is a standardized environment in which applications written in multiple high-level languages can be executed in different system environments without the need to rewrite those applications to take into consideration the unique characteristics of those environments. It's now standardized as ECMA-335 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and also in the equivalent ISO standard, ISO/IEC 23271.

-- Reference:

• Standard ECMA-335 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
• ISO/IEC 23271:2006
• ISO/IEC FDIS 23271

C++/CLI is simple C++ (mainly developed by Microsoft) for the Common Language Infrastructure.