Moving Test Hooks Outside Your Product’s Source Code

Visual CPP TeamDecember 29, 2008Dec 29, 200812/29/08

 Hello, my name is Raul Perez, I’m part of the Visual C++ IDE team and I’m going to talk about test hooks. When writing automated testing for specific features in your applications you usually have to figure out how you’ll actually get the information you need without going through all the steps you would usually throug

VC9 SP1 Hotfix For The vector<function<FT>> Crash

Visual CPP TeamDecember 17, 2008Dec 17, 200812/17/08

Back in August, I blogged about the TR1 fixes in VC9 SP1.  An observant reader, grokbrsm, commented that vector<function<FT>> was broken by VC9 SP1.  A hotfix for this bug is now available:  Here is the updated link to download the hotfix: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx

MSBuild Task

Visual CPP TeamDecember 16, 2008Dec 16, 200812/16/08

Hello again! My name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ group. As one of my colleagues, Marian Luparu, has blogged in detail about, and Soma has mentioned in his recent blog as well, one of the important features we have in VS2010 is to enable C++ customers to build C++ applications using MSBuild. MSBuild (

VC++ are participating in a “Slow Chat” over at “Code Guru”

Visual CPP TeamDecember 9, 2008Dec 9, 200812/9/08

Hello Just a short note to let you know that members of VC++ are participating in a “Slow Chat” over at “Code Guru” this week. We always enjoy reading feedback and (hopefully) answering questions - and this gives us a different venue (and as they say “a change is as good as a holiday”.) http://www.codeguru

Inheriting From a Native C++ Class in C#

Visual CPP TeamDecember 8, 2008Dec 8, 200812/8/08

Hi, this is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team.  I have blogged in the past about our IDE and Intellisense work.  I am still heavily focused on that and we are working hard to deliver an improved experience, but this post is about a completely different topic.  A few months ago, I started thinking about how to

CTaskDialog: an alternative to the simple message box!

Visual CPP TeamDecember 4, 2008Dec 4, 200812/4/08

Hello everybody, Let me introduce myself, my name is Lukasz Chodorski and I am a new SDE in the Visual C++ Libraries Team. In this post I would like to present to you the CTaskDialog class which wraps the Windows API* in the MFC library. What actually is the CTaskDialog? It is a class/component which can be easily customized depending on your