STL enjoys speaking in the third person and also enjoys bringing you this exclusive news: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VC9 SP1) contains the TR1 and MFC library extensions that were originally released in the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Refresh. But wait! VC9 SP1 also contains many delicious fixes for TR1 and MFC. (For...
Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. Not only does this service pack include the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but also addresses a range of issues found through customer and partner feedback. Issues found since SP1 beta have been fixed in the release. Some...
Once you’ve built a great looking application, you’ll likely want to provide equally great looking icons and toolbar bitmaps. Unfortunately, the bitmap editing tools included in Visual Studio are far from state-of-the-art. They haven’t been updated for a long time and simply don’t provide a rich set of tools for ...
Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework Hello, I am Manish Vasani, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Phoenix Analysis and Tools team. In this post, I’ll be giving a brief overview of the Phoenix Pereader-based Analysis tools with an emphasis on the difficulties traditionally involved in testing these types of tools and how Phoe...
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 opportunity t...
HelloStephan has just completed his latest channel 9 video, this one on debugging in our implementation of the STL: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/STL-Iterator-Debugging-and-Secure-SCL/. This topic gets a little confusing as we have two technologies available here, namely Iterator Debugging and Iterator Checking – if you are occas...
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. Debugging ...
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.cpp, ...
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 who ...
A Channel9 video just got published where Russell Hadley (Senior Developer on the VC++ Team) speaks more about the VC compiler. Check out the video at https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=405345Thanks,Visual C++ Development Team
