TechEd 2008 – meeting customers at the booth!

Visual CPP TeamJune 30, 2008Jun 30, 200806/30/08

Hello, my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in Visual C++ team. From June 3 to June 6, I had the opportunity to attend TechEd 2008 in Orlando along with two colleagues, Marian Luparu and Martha Wieczorek.  Most of my time was spent at the Visual C++ Booth to answer customers’ questions. I also had the ...

Interesting Visual C++ Resources

Visual CPP TeamJune 12, 2008Jun 12, 200806/12/08

A few weeks ago the Visual C++ team delivered two days of technical content to developers down in Northern California.  At this event, we mentioned a large number of useful resources.  We thought we’d take the opportunity to pass them on to readers of the blog as well.  Hopefully you’ll find them valuable. ...

Data-driven Visual C++ Editing Test Framework

Visual CPP TeamJune 9, 2008Jun 9, 200806/9/08

Hello, I am Smile, a member of the QA team on Visual C++ Compiler Team. I would like to write about the methods we use to verify the intellisense results while editing in the Visual C++ IDE. To better understand this, consider the following common user scenario:Andy opens his project in IDE to continue his work the day before. He opens Client....

Some C++ Gotchas

Visual CPP TeamJune 5, 2008Jun 5, 200806/5/08

Hi - Jonathan Caves again.  Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen some reports from users that the C++ compiler does not act the way they think it should.  As it turns these reports weren’t real bugs, but the issues brought up are interesting enough to share with a wider audience. The first was from a customer...