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Microsoft Publishes C++ AMP Spec, Wants to Lower Barriers to Data-Parallelism
Hoping to make programming data-parallel hardware easier, Microsoft has published its open specification for C++ AMP. By building its implementation directly into Visual Studio 11 Microsoft seeks to improve access to the GPU for developers.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection
VS11 will provide new tools that expedite unit testing, refactoring, and easier communication across the entire development team. These new components are intended to benefit everyone from developers, and testers to those deploying and maintaining the resulting application.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features
Visual Studio 11 will introduce some new editor features intended to make developing for DirectX and SharePoint easier.
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ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support
ReSharper 6.1 promises to alleviate many performance problems with ReSharper 6 in Visual Studio 2010. In addition to bugfixes, the pre-release includes new features such as the async/await keywords, an updated settings engine, and experimental support for Visual Studio 11.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Wither Performance?
Previous articles in our mini-series on the upcoming Visual Studio 11 have discussed new features of the supported programming languages and the IDE. Today we'll take a look at another important aspect that affects all developers using Visual Studio: performance.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: New IDE Features
Our Visual Studio 11 preview continues with an overview of some new features of the Visual Studio 11 IDE.
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New Tool for Debugging Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 11
Microsoft has released the Parallel Visualization Pack for Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. Built to extend the functionality of the new Parallel Watch Window, the pack includes four visual tools to aid in debugging multithreaded applications.
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Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11
As of version 11, macros will no longer be available in Visual Studio. This marks the first version in nearly a decade to not allow for crating ad-hock extensions to the IDE. Fully compiled extensions can still be created and new project templates are included to make that process much easier.
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Visual Studio vNext Code Editor Improvements for C++
Sumit Kumar on the VC++ team has revealed some of the new IDE features for the next version of Visual Studio. While some of them are merely catching up to VB/C#, others suggest new features that all of the languages could take advantage of.