Creating Desktop Apps with Visual C++ 2012
It’s been a busy few weeks and I’m just now catching up with some announcements.
My latest column for the February 2013 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online as well as in print.
With all the hype over Windows 8 and what are now known as Windows Store apps, I’ve received some questions about the relevance of desktop apps and whether Standard C++ is still a viable choice going forward. These questions are sometimes hard to answer, but what I can tell you is that the Visual C++ 2012 compiler is more committed than ever to Standard C++ and it remains the best toolchain, in my humble opinion, for building great desktop apps for Windows whether you’re targeting Windows 7, Windows 8 or even Windows XP.
You can find links to more of my articles here.
It is really, really sad that MS only provides 20 year old technologies for “creating desktop apps with visual C++ 2012″
Pierre
15 February 2013 at 6:40 pm
C++ is 30 years old and I’m still quite happy with it.
Kenny Kerr
16 February 2013 at 12:54 pm