My Idle Timeouts
Windows 8 hits RTM
Steven Sinofsky blogged the announcement a few minutes back on the “Building Windows 8” blog. Next...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 08/01/2012
Announcing BUILD 2012
Registration opens at 8AM on 8/8 so please mark your calendars. This year, the event is at the...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/26/2012
TFSPreview : Hosted Source Control and Build engine Service in the cloud
One of the things that has been taking up my time over the past few months has been the availability...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/22/2012
Running the Ocean Simulation AMP sample on the NVidia GeForce GTX 550Ti
As mentioned earlier, I upgraded my home machine GPU to a NVidia GeForce GTX 550Ti recently. I setup...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/22/2012
Windows 8 to be available on….
Oct 26, 2012. Source: The Windowsteamblog here
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/18/2012
Using “Windows 8 on a USB”
I want to share my experience of running Windows 8 on a USB drive. This supported feature, dubbed,...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/10/2012
Windows 8 coming this October; RTM on track for August
Microsoft just announced that Windows 8 will hit the stores this October. This means you will get...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/09/2012
Filing income tax returns online if you are in India
I will take a small de-tour today from my regular blogging schedule on all things WinRT and C++....
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/07/2012
Time to upgrade PC Graphics card?
I recently began writing the 4th chapter of my upcoming book on “Developing Windows 8 Applications...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/07/2012
C++ AMP contest
Beyond3D announced a contest calling for developers to implement a program using C++ AMP. Head over...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/03/2012
Using JSON and C++ in Windows 8 Apps
The LiveSDK team has a bunch of exciting samples demonstrating using JavaScript along with HTML, C#...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/02/2012
Windows Phone Summit–now LIVE
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Phone/Summit
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/20/2012
Inside Auto vectorization in the C++ compiler
Jim Radigan from the C++ team is now in Channel9 explaining, in a series of videos, how the auto...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/20/2012
Interested in developing for Windows RT?
If you are interested in developing for Windows RT (and who are not?), here are a few useful links...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/17/2012
Targeting Windows XP with C++ in Visual Studio 2012
Support for targeting Windows XP with C++ in Visual Studio 2012 is coming. Steve Teixeira from the...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/15/2012
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
Soma blogged about the release of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop a few hours ago....
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/08/2012
LINQ for C/C++: It is coming and it is true
the full link is here Enjoy!
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/05/2012
Want to work on the C++ team at Microsoft? VC is hiring!!!
With the C++ Renaissance in full swing at Microsoft, the Visual C++ team is looking to hire folks...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/05/2012
Writing C++ /CX code to generate XAML UI
Quite often I get asked a very simple question: Can I skip using XAML for creating the User...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 06/01/2012
Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available
Visual Studio 2012 RC is now available for download. More details on the announcement, features etc...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/31/2012
Windows 8 Release Preview now available
The Windows team announced the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview. Download your copy...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/31/2012
Programming Windows Sixth Edition – Last day to get a great deal
Reposting… Charles Petzold is back with “Programming Windows Sixth Edition”,...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/31/2012
Unit testing support for native apps in Visual Studio 11
Visual Studio 11 includes support for unit testing native code. This support is provided via an...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/29/2012
10 years of Trustworthy computing
Just realized that it is 10 years since Bill Gates sent the memo on Trustworthy computing. Jeffrey...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/28/2012
Update on blog maintenance
This past weekend I completed the blog maintenance as I mentioned earlier. I moved my domain...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/27/2012
Upcoming Blog maintenance
I have been thinking of moving from a free wordpress blog, which is what my blog is currently, to a...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/26/2012
Kinect for Windows v1.5 SDK and Runtime are now LIVE!!
Head over to the announcement here Enjoy!!
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/21/2012
Hello World from XAML and C++ /CX
We have previously explored how to write a Hello World console application using C++ /CX. Today we...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/21/2012
Implementing an IValueConverter in C++ /Cx for Data Binding
To create a value converter, we create a class that implements the IValueConverter interface and...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/21/2012
Reflection in the native Windows Runtime
If the Windows Runtime has all sorts of metadata information on classes, types, interfaces etc,...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/20/2012
Programming Windows Sixth Edition is coming!!!
Charles Petzold is back with “Programming Windows Sixth Edition”, updated for Windows 8....
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/18/2012
Introducing Project Hilo for Windows 8
Hilo is a series of articles and tutorials describing how to develop applications for the Windows...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/15/2012
Hello World using C++ /CX
As is customary with programming languages, here is a Hello World introduction using C++ /CX. ...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/09/2012
Introduction to the STL
Stephan from the Visual C++ team has a nice introductory post on the Standard Template Library....
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/16/2010
Learn to program Windows using C++
MSDN has a series of articles and posts on how to program Windows applications using C++. Check out...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 07/08/2010
Project Hilo on MSDN
The Windows Sample Gallery showcases attractive samples from the Windows SDK and will be used to...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 05/24/2010
Rendering Bing Maps on Windows 7 using Windows Web Services and Direct2D – Part I
The Bing Maps Web Services provide a wide array of methods that can be accessed programmatically. If...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 04/24/2010
Attending TechReady in Seattle
I am currently in Seattle attending TechReady, an internal only training and readiness event. I will...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 03/21/2010
Save our Tigers
I took these pictures some time ago, at the Hyderabad Zoo while I was away on personal time off. The...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 02/28/2010
Hello World
Welcome to my world! I will use this blog to talk about some of the things that interest me,...
Author: Sridhar P Date: 02/24/2010