07 | Next Steps

Kate Gregory | Gregory Consulting

James McNellis | Senior Engineer, Visual C++
Module Overview

• Topics not covered (advanced C++)

• Application types, libraries, and frameworks
• Language and library roadmap
Lesson 1: Topics not covered
• Move semantics and rvalue
references
• Less used syntax and keywords
– switch, immediate if, comma
operator
– Bitwise comparisons and shifting
– struct
• Writing templates
• Operator Overloading
• Legacy C++ constructs:
– C-style arrays, C-style strings, union,
printf, …
• Performance considerations
• Visual Studio settings and options
related to C++
– Precompiled headers
– Indenting styles
Lesson 2: Application Types

• Windows (desktop) applications

– WPF, MFC, DirectX
• Windows Store apps
– C++/CX
• Windows Phone apps
• C++ REST SDK
• PPL and C++ AMP
• C++/CLI for interop with .NET
DEMO
Other kinds of applications
Lesson 3: Language and Library Roadmap

• C++ 14 is almost approved

• C++ 17 will be next
• Working groups adding capability to the Standard Library
– Graphics
– Networking
– Concurrency and parallelism
DEMO
C++ Roadmap
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