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April 2007 - C++ Team Blog

Marshaling Library in Orcas

April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Weidong Huang, an SDET on the VC++ library team.  I joined MS six months ago and have had a wonderful experience so far. In this post, I would like to talk about a new feature of Orcas, the Marshaling Library, which is also the first feature I’ve worked on at MS.What is marshaling library?The marshaling library helps to ...

Visual Studio Express Orcas

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07
Visual CPP Team
The Community Technology Preview of the Visual Studio Express "Orcas" product is available for download now. Try out the CTP for the Visual C++ "Orcas" Express Edition and let us know your feedback. You can use the VC++ Orcas Forums to discuss relates issues.Looking forward to your feedback!Thanks,The Visual C++ Development Team...

Channel 9: VC++ Safe Libraries and More

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Visual CPP Team
Our Channel 9 season continues, this time with a video featuring Ale Contenti, Senior Development Lead on the VC++ libraries team. Much of Ale’s recent work has been on the Safe Libraries (for example, the Safe CRT). Here Ale talks about making the STL safer and goes deep explaining how checked and unchecked iterators work internally and...

Resource Editor Updates for Orcas

April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07
Visual CPP Team
Hi,My name is Bogdan Mihalcea; I’m a developer in the Visual C++ IDE team. In the course of the last few months we have updated the Resource Editor to support new Windows Vista features and guidelines.We concentrated our efforts around the Dialog Editor, Image Editor and Icon Editor. Below you will find a summary of the updates we have ...

Visual C++ Orcas Feature Specifications online

April 10, 2007 Apr 10, 2007 04/10/07
Visual CPP Team
To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming "Visual Studio Orcas" release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door – either via a Community Technology Preview (CTP) or, in the future, as part of an Orcas Beta. The March CTP...

The Cost of a Test Defect

April 2, 2007 Apr 2, 2007 04/2/07
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I’m Marina Polishchuk, an SDET on the VC++ Compiler Front End team.  Recently, I have been working on investigating Orcas test pass results, which involves validating and reproducing the results, researching into causes of failures, and filing bugs when appropriate.  This is a typical activity for an SDET throughout the ...