Latest Visual C++ / C++ Articles - Page 2

Learn how to convert an app into a service without much of an effort using this simple, two-step, yet powerful Windows Service class called CSvcHandler.

This article implements a Mandelbrot renderer that is multiple times faster than a CPU-only implementation by using a new Microsoft technology called C++ AMP: Accelerated Massive Parallelism, introduced in the Visual C++ 11 Preview.

Andrey Karpov shares some useful observations on error patterns, touching upon the subject of handling rare and emergency conditions in programs.

This third article in the series discusses a couple of new programming methods that can help you make your code simpler and safer.

Wong Shao Voon shows you how to use SSE2 to Speed up Alphablending.

This is the second article on avoiding certain errors at the early stage of code writing. In the previous post, we have already advised you to avoid a large number of calculations in one expression. However, we should investigate this question in detail. Let's see what's dangerous about complex expressions and how we can avoid many logical errors.