Windows with C++: Visual C++ 2010 and the Parallel Patterns Library

My latest Windows with C++ column in the February 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine is now online:

Windows with C++: Visual C++ 2010 and the Parallel Patterns Library

Visual C++ is getting a major upgrade in the 2010 release of Visual Studio. Many of the new language and library features are designed purely to make it easier and more natural to express your desires in code. But as has always been the case with C++, the combination of these features is what makes C++ such a powerful and expressive language.

So this month I am going to introduce some of the additions to the C++ language that Visual C++ has added as part of the forthcoming C++0x standard. I'll then look at the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) that Microsoft has developed over and above the C++0x standard to introduce parallelism to your applications in a manner that naturally complements the standard C++ library.

This article was a bit hard to write as the pre-release version of Visual Studio 2010 that I had at the time of writing was very unstable. The IDE has a long way to go before it is ready for day to day use. There is however a great deal to look forward to for the native C++ developer and I hope you enjoy this introduction to some of the new language and library features.

If you’re looking for one of my previous articles here is a complete list of them for you to browse through.

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