Bjarne Stroustrup offers a sneak peek at the next version of standard C++ ("C++0x") which should be complete by 2009.

This presentation provides an look at Visual Studio .NET 2003 from a C++ Developers perspective. It takes a look at Interoperability, Security, Performance and Windows Forms in C++. Source code included.

Learn new tips and tricks for using the C++ compiler to generate the best performing and most optimized code possible. These tips span both unmanaged and managed C++ optimization.

This free ebook defines a C++ coding standard that should be valid and usable for almost all programmers. ISO 9000 as well as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) states that coding standards are mandatory for any company with quality ambitions. Developing such a coding standard is, however, a non-trivial task, particularly for a complex multi- paradigm language like C++. In this ebook we give you a good start for a programming standard for a particular company or project. Such a standard is often written by the most experienced programmers in a company. If a quality manager responsible for the development of such a standard instead select this book as the base for the coding standard, experienced programmers can be relieved from this arduous task and instead continue to do what they prefer to do, designing the company products. This ebook should also be of great interest for quality aware C++ programmers trying to find ways of improving their code.

After working through this module you should be able to define and use class hierarchies, employing inheritance and polymorphism via virtual functions.

After working through this module you should be able to create and use objects in C++, incorporating encapsulation and information hiding.

This presentation will illustrate 10 tips for getting the most out of the IDE. Special attention to "hidden" or power-user functionality. Many of the tips apply to both Visual C++ 2003 and 2005

Knowing the IDE well is important to developer productivity, and this session shows you some of the coolest tips to make the Visual C++ IDE your favorite tool. After this session you'll never ask, "How do I do that in the IDE?"

Most benchmarks compare only a single implementation of a program in, say, C++, to one implementation in Java - neglecting the possibility that alternative implementations might compare differently. In contrast, this article presents a comparison of 40 different implementations of the same program, written by 38 different programmers (there are two double Java implementations).

This paper discusses how to get secure random numbers for your application. We describe how to take a single, secure, random number (a seed), and stretch it into a big stream of random numbers using a secure pseudo-random number generator. We talk about how to get random data in lots of different representations (e.g., an integer in a particular range or a printable string). We also discuss how to get real randomness in an environment that is fundamentally deterministic, and we give advice on figuring out how to estimate how much randomness exists in a piece of data.