My name is Martha Wieczorek; I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in Visual C++ IDE team. I am going to talk about Custom Wizards and the changes made to this wizard in Visual Studio codename Orcas. Wizard is the name for a Visual Studio feature that facilitates the creation of new projects or items. Each of the project types listed in the ...
The latest Channel 9 video by the Visual C++ team has just been released. This video features Sarita Bafna, a PM on the libraries team, talking about a few of our latest features which are previewed in the March CTP: “MFC support for Vista” includes support for new Vista file dialogs, support for the new controls specifically fo...
Hi, Pat Brenner again. I recently posted an article about Spy++ internals. I have some updates that I want to share with you. Some of this article will be clearer if you first read that one. First, Spy++ has been updated for Visual Studio codename Orcas to handle the new common controls/messages/flags added in Windows Vista.&...
MFC has been updated for Visual Studio codename Orcas to handle the new common controls/messages/flags added in Windows Vista. We have made a number of updates to MFC to wrap the new controls and messages, so when you’re using these new capabilities, MFC will make it easier to code them. Three new MFC classes have been added to wra...
Hey again, everyone. I’m Peter-Michael, a program manager with the VC++ compiler team. Continuing with the Orcas feature parade, I'd like to talk about the compiler's team contribution to the product. Back in June, Jonathan Caves posted about the compiler team’s plans for Orcas. To recap, the compiler team is usi...
Starting from March 2007, the Daylight Savings Time (DST) start date and end date for the United States will change. DST will start at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March and end at 2:00 A.M on the first Sunday in November. The C Run-Time (CRT) performs its own time handling only when the TZ environment variable is set, or when an underlying O...
ATL Server is now released as a shared source project on CodePlex.com! You can download all the source to ATL Server and use it with recently released March CTP of Visual Studio codename Orcas. The release of this code allows developers to innovate and evolve the library to meet needs of their applications.To learn more, please&nbs...
Real-world solutions typically consist of multiple projects - often many projects. The projects are usually related to each other in some sort of dependency relationship. For example, consider a solution with 3 primary output targets (P1-3), a few intermediate components (I1-5), and a few shared dlls (L1-3). The dependencies might look something li...
Meet Marina Polishchuk from the Visual C++ QA team in this new video on Channel 9! Marina helps test the front-end to ensure the best possible quality in the compiler. Learn more about how she goes about this task by watching the video at https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=285284.Thanks,The Visual C++ Team!
