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December 2010 - C++ Team Blog

Making an Exception

December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 12/29/10
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) An interesting debate about C++ exceptions took place a few weeks ago in the C++ MVPs discussion list. The trigger was something as innocent and specific as “would you guys just throw std::runtime_exception with some error message string or you define a new exception hierarchy? What’s your opinion on AtlThrow/AtlThrowLastWin32?” ...

Unit-Testing Native C++ with Visual Studio

December 21, 2010 Dec 21, 2010 12/21/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi there! I’m John Socha-Leialoha and I’m a big fan of TDD. When I asked around about writing C++ tests, I was told there isn’t any support for C++ unit tests in Visual C++. Not true. Check this blog post where I tell you what’s required in order to write unit test for native C++ code using ...

Staying Current with Visual C++ 2010

December 20, 2010 Dec 20, 2010 12/20/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) A few weeks ago, the 2010 Edition of TechEd Europe took place in Berlin, Germany. C++ MVP Kate Gregory (picture) delivered a session where she shows through demos the latest achievements in the C++arena, especially regarding the upcoming C++0x version of language (scheduled by 2011), its libraries, concurrency and related IDE ...

Issues with F1-Help in C++ Projects

December 15, 2010 Dec 15, 2010 12/15/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi! My name is Ulzii Luvsanbat and I’m a Senior Test Lead with the Visual C++ team. Diego told me about some feedback received in a recent post regarding the accuracy and usefulness of the F1-Help command when working on C++ projects. First of all, I want to start by thanking all of you guys for your feedback on F1 Help ...

“Off By Default” Compiler Warnings in Visual C++

December 14, 2010 Dec 14, 2010 12/14/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings! My name is Jon Sturgeon; I’m a developer in the Forefront team here at Microsoft. I’m happy to be able to contribute to the Visual C++ Team Blog as a “guest blogger”. One of my passions when writing C++ code has always been to use as many techniques as possible to find bugs earlier and earlier in the ...

VS2010 SP1 Beta: What’s in It for C++ Developers

December 9, 2010 Dec 9, 2010 12/9/10
Visual CPP Team
(image)  As announced two  days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander, the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details...

Microsoft Tells What's Next for C++

December 5, 2010 Dec 5, 2010 12/5/10
Visual CPP Team
 By chance,  are you among those who think that Microsoft is leaving native development in general and the C++ programming language in particular behind? You better watch this interview to Ale Contenti, Principal Development Manager with the Windows C++ team at Microsoft. [View:http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/bdef/183a9795-09f1-...