ISTEP 2012: What’s new in Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2013?

If you use Intel VTune Amplifier to profile performance in your applications, you might be interested to know what could be in store in the next version. It’s currently in beta, but at the Intel Software Conference, recently, we heard what’s in the beta. New features include: Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 support Support [...]

Microsoft adds game-style achievements to Visual Studio

Now this is a bit of a strange one. It appears that Microsoft has created an extension to Visual Studio that will assess programmers’ work for various “achievements” and then give them badges that they can post on their blogs, Microsoft’s forum, and other places. Microsoft does have some history in this area. It created [...]

Microsoft adds new parallel programming features to Visual Studio

You have the opportunity to experiment with the new parallel programming features that Microsoft is introducing into the next version of Visual  Studio. The developer preview of Visual Studio 11 is available now for free download. Microsoft warns that this preview software shouldn’t be used in a production environment, but does say it will work [...]

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