Things I like about native development with C++/CX

Visual Studio 11 brings many new things for native development, including support for new features from C++11 (unfortunately not all), or ability to write Metro apps with C++/CX including modeling the UI with XAML. In this post I will talk a bit about three favorite features that I noticed immediately after trying VS11 from Windows…

Avoid using directives in header files

It is often that I see people using namespace directives in header files. This is a bad practice maybe not enought explained, so I will try to clarify why one should always avoid this. When you are using a using directive (such as using namespace std) or using declarations (such as using std::cout) you are…