Microsoft's "CHANGE", 1975 - 2012

Developing iOS Map Applications with C#

Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Tablet : Keynote

Surface by Microsoft

Nokia Lumia Screen 900 Hammer Test

A Nokia Lumia 900 is put to the test of being hammered on with nails and more.

Lang.NEXT 2012

Lang.NEXT 2012 is a cross-industry conference for programming language designers and implementers on the MIcrosoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. With three days of talks, panels and discussion on leading programming language work from industry and research, Lang.NEXT is the place to learn, share ideas and engage with fellow programming language design experts and enthusiasts. Native, functional, imperative, object oriented, static, dynamic, managed, interpreted... It's a programming language geek fest.

details: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012

GoingNative 2012 - a 48 hour, globally live-streamed technical event

GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour, globally live-streamed technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: C++ developers. Distinguished speakers include the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Standards Committee Chair, Herb Sutter, C++ template and big compute master, Andrei Alexandrescu, STL master Stephan T. Lavavej, LLVM/Clang developer Chandler Carruth, distributed and parallel computing expert Hans Boehm, and C++ library design expert and ISO committee member Andrew Sutton.

"C++11 feels like a new language" says C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup, who will keynote the event. Tune in now and find out why.

link: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012

^ (Handle to Object on Managed Heap)

In last post "Get user input from Console, ReadLine()", the returned oject from Console::ReadLine() is in data type of String^. ^ indicate that it is a handle to an object.

A handle to an object on the managed heap points to the "whole" object, and not to a member of the object.

See gcnew for information on how to create an object on the managed heap.

In Visual C++ 2002 and Visual C++ 2003, __gc * was used to declare an object on the managed heap. The ^ replaces __gc * in the new syntax.

The common language runtime maintains a separate heap on which it implements a precise, asynchronous, compacting garbage collection scheme. To work correctly, it must track all storage locations that can point into this heap at runtime. ^ provides a handle through which the garbage collector can track a reference to an object on the managed heap, thereby being able to update it whenever that object is moved.

Because native C++ pointers (*) and references (&) cannot be tracked precisely, a handle-to object declarator is used.

Member selection through a handle (^) uses the pointer-to-member operator (->).

Read more: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yk97tc08.aspx

Introducing Visual Studio Achievements

Visual Studio Achievements extension just released, here's the 60 second recap with what you need to know about how it works.

Run Android App on Windows using BlueStacks App Player

With BlueStacks App Player, you can run Android App fullscreen on your PC or Windows tablet right away. You can also transfer more apps to BlueStacks from your Android device using our Cloud Connect mobile app.

Remark: BlueStacks App Player is an alpha version currently.

Web Site: http://bluestacks.com/



BlueStacks Cloud Connect at Android Market: BlueStacks Cloud Connect is a Android App Send your Android apps to the BlueStacks App Player on your PC.