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March 2011 - Page 2 of 2 - C++ Team Blog

Proposed Workaround for C++/CLI Assembly Signing Issue with VS2010 SP1

March 11, 2011 Mar 11, 2011 03/11/11
Visual CPP Team
Hi, my name is Amit Mohindra and I’m Program Manager with the MS Visual C++ team.Recently we were made aware of a change in SP1 which affected the signing process for assemblies (C++/CLI assemblies) as part of the following forum post:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/4b8f353d-8153-45d6-b286-10403cdf159a?prof...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

Algorithm Optimizations – Advanced STL, Part 2

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11
Visual CPP Team
Part 2 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available.  In this part, I walk through how our STL algorithms equal() and copy() use template metaprogramming to detect when it's safe to call memcmp() and memmove(), which are potentially faster than the generic loops. In Part 1's ...

C++/CLI IntelliSense in Visual Studio vNext

March 3, 2011 Mar 3, 2011 03/3/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Recently Mohsen & Craig talked about a Renaissance within C++ development and Tony talked rebuilding our developer communication around C++, both of these videos touched on the subject of providing a more real world pragmatic discussion around why we do things and what we’re planning. This post is the first in a series of posts we&...

Tony Goodhew on Visual C++ Developer Communication

March 1, 2011 Mar 1, 2011 03/1/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Charles Torre, our C++ fan in Channel 9, just posted an interview he made a few days ago to Tony Goodhew: a Microsoft veteran in the Developer Tools Division who has returned home to his roots in VC++ after working as a product manager on VC6. One of Tony's priorities is effectively communicating with developer customers who ...