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Announcing Casablanca refresh

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12

Visual CPP Team

Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. Today, we are announcing a “bug-fix” refresh to the Casablanca release. The update can be downloaded from the Casablanca devlabs site....

STL Bugs Fixed In Visual Studio 2012

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12

Visual CPP Team

After Pat's post last week about MFC bugs fixed in Visual Studio 2012 (aka VC11), I thought that a similar list for the STL would be interesting: ID Title 492128 std::locale constructor modifies global locale via "setlocale()" 492561 STL streams cannot be used concurrently 498533 iostreams should use codepage of their...

Targeting Windows XP with C++ in Visual Studio 2012

June 15, 2012 Jun 15, 2012 06/15/12

Steve Teixeira, MSFT

We recently announced the Visual Studio 2012 product lineup and platform support, and as a part of this announcement we mentioned that we were evaluating options for enabling C++ developers to build applications in Visual Studio 2012 that run on Windows XP without requiring side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2010. Today I would like to...

What bugs were fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2012?

June 14, 2012 Jun 14, 2012 06/14/12

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently shared some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library in this blog post. Several people responded to that post asking for a list of bugs that have been fixed in MFC for Visual Studio 2012. Though I cannot provide a complete list ...

C++ in Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop

June 12, 2012 Jun 12, 2012 06/12/12

Visual CPP Team

In case some of you missed it, Soma recently announced Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop development. This express edition will include the latest VC++ compiler and libraries, which is great for students, new developers and open source application developers. Please follow the link to see more details and to contribute to the ...

Be What’s Next (We’re hiring!)

June 1, 2012 Jun 1, 2012 06/1/12

Visual CPP Team

The C++ organization is growing and hiring across all feature areas (C++ 11, compiler front-end, compiler back-end, C++ AMP, PPL, libraries & runtime, IDE, Casablanca). We are looking for passionate program managers, developers and testers to bang out the next versions of the toolset! What’s in it for you: &...

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