C++ Team Blog

Interested in using web services in your native C/C++ code?

March 31, 2009 Mar 31, 2009 03/31/09

Visual CPP Team

If you are planning to use web services in your native C/C++, here is how you can learn how you can do that. 1)      On 04/01/2009, Nikola Dudar will be hosting a web cast on Windows Web Services API as part of   Microsoft Virtual TechDays for Developers. Nikola is going to introduce Windows Web ...

Some VS2005 and VS2008 Wizards Pop Up Script Error.

March 28, 2009 Mar 28, 2009 03/28/09

Visual CPP Team

Visual C++ team has discovered that after installing the current release of Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 8), some VC++ wizards do not function correctly.  The products affected are Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.  Following are the affected wizards:-          Add ...

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

March 25, 2009 Mar 25, 2009 03/25/09

Visual CPP Team

Back in December, I blogged about a hotfix for the vector<function<FT>> crash in VC9 SP1.  An observant reader, User, commented that the hotfix had been packaged incorrectly.  We've fixed this problem, and you can now download the repackaged hotfix. Stephan T. LavavejVisual C++ Libraries Developer...

GS

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09

Visual CPP Team

My name is Hongwei Qi and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ compiler code generation team. In this post I want to share with you the enhancements planned for the GS feature in Visual Studio 2010.  Evolution of GS A lot of code written in C and C++ has vulnerabilities that leave their users open to buffer ...

Performance Tests

March 16, 2009 Mar 16, 2009 03/16/09

Visual CPP Team

Hello everyone, I’m Asmaa Taha; I’m a test developer in the Visual C++ compiler optimization test team.Our Team has various testing systems that automate the testing and reporting processes to convey the state of the product to our feature teams. Some of them are useful in automating the feature testing we have for the compiler (...

Testing VC++ Compiler and Intellisense

March 10, 2009 Mar 10, 2009 03/10/09

Visual CPP Team

Hello,My name is Rashid Sarwar and I am on Visual C++ Compiler Front End team. I have been on this team for several months and have learned many things on how to test a complier. In this post I will be sharing with you how we test our Visual C++ compiler and it’s Intellisense. Testing features in a compiler is not easy as each ...

Visual C++ Development Laboratory – May 4th through 8th, 2009

March 2, 2009 Mar 2, 2009 03/2/09

Visual CPP Team

Hello,   As you know, we love to come and visit our customers every chance we get (PDC, TechEd and various country tours), but this time we thought we would do something at our place. We are running a Development Laboratory here in Redmond from May 4th through 8th (this definitely does not preclude people from outside Redmond ...