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June 2009 - C++ Team Blog

STL Performance

June 23, 2009 Jun 23, 2009 06/23/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I am Mohammad Usman, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently joined the team. In VS 2008 SP1, we invested heavily in our Standard Template Library (STL) implementation by adding TR1 extensions such as shared_ptr, including performance optimizations for things like vectors of shared_ptrs.  In...

Channel 9 Video: David LeBlanc (and Ale Contenti): Inside SafeInt

June 16, 2009 Jun 16, 2009 06/16/09
Visual CPP Team
David LeBlanc and Michael Howard literally wrote the book on “Writing Secure Code”. David has also developed the SafeInt  class, a template class that performs “checked” operations on integer types (with a name like SafeInt what else would you expect). In VS2010 we decided to ship the SafeInt class in the box, so ...

Call Hierarchy

June 11, 2009 Jun 11, 2009 06/11/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello everyone, My name is Raman Sharma and I am a PM on the VC++ IDE team.  I want to talk about a new feature called Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio 10.  As the name suggests, it is used for navigating all functions called from within a particular function and all functions that make calls to a particular function.  Many of ...

VS Project Team Blog Is Up!

June 10, 2009 Jun 10, 2009 06/10/09
Visual CPP Team
The VS Project team, part of Platform team, own the C# and VB project systems brought their expertise to the table along with the VC++ team to give you an extensible and much more powerful project system.  The team maintains a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsproject/ where we will blog about project system topics in much more detail. Stay...

C++ Gets Squiggles!

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I’m Mitchell Slep, a developer on the Visual C++ compiler team.  I’m very excited to tell you about a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 - C++ IntelliSense can now display compiler-quality syntax and semantic errors as you browse and edit your code!  (image) We display a wavy underline or “squiggle” in ...