18Jan/120
AMP + C# = what I wanted to see for years
I was reading about AMP the other night, basically a light weight C++ wrapper that is used to offload tasks to your GPU. I was going to brush off my C++ skills tonight, but luckily I don't have to after reading this article. WinRT makes using C++ libraries a breeze, finally you don't have to use p/invoke. I'll definitely be playing around with this as soon as my Visual Studio 11 installation issues get resolved.
A word to the wise, if you're installing Windows 8, install it with the Developer Tools. I made the mistake of installing the non-developer tools Windows 8 Developer Preview, which doesn't install the necessary SDK for C++ compiling. If you're only doing C#, I had no trouble programming/compiling WPF and WCF apps.