C++ Team Blog

Using different toolsets for vc build

December 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007 12/31/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am Olga Arkhipova and I am a VC IDE developer. I joined VC team about two years ago and inherited vc project and build system.  I’ve been using VC since VC2, so for me it is quite interesting to see and work on the code I’ve been using (or sometimes not using, because it did not do what I needed) for so long J ...

Just What Is This TR1 Thing?

December 26, 2007 Dec 26, 2007 12/26/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi there. Rob Huyett here again. I’m an SDET on the VC Libraries team. One of the things I’ve been working on lately is the new TR1 add-on for Visual Studio 2008. When VS 2008 TR1 support was announced about a month ago, I’m sure that the reaction varied from “Woo-hoo! I can’t wait!” to “Huh? What&...

IntelliSense History, Part 1

December 18, 2007 Dec 18, 2007 12/18/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello, this is Jim Springfield again.  I want to start explaining our plan to fundamentally change how IntelliSense and other code browsing features work for C/C++.  The recent GDR for VS2005 and the changes that went into VS2008 were significant, but they don’t really change how these features are implemented.  This post ...

How a program accesses functions

December 17, 2007 Dec 17, 2007 12/17/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I’m Alan Chan and I am a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  We all know that a library is a collection of functions.  However, how does a program actually “access” these functions under the covers?  Essentially, there are 3 different ways that a function can be made available for the program to ...

Workflow of the IDE QA team

December 3, 2007 Dec 3, 2007 12/3/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello everyone, I am Anca Miclea. I work as a SDET (QA) in the VC IDE team. This is my first post on VC blog and I would like to share with you how we test the IDE for VC++. Yes, we do test the IDE and this is not an easy job ;) For each new feature that we add to the product, we need to write a Test Plan (TP). Each TP is ...

Q&A about the VC++ Intellisense QFE

November 26, 2007 Nov 26, 2007 11/26/07

Visual CPP Team

HelloLast week, Jim announced the availability of the Intellisense fixes as a publicly downloadable QFE for Visual C++ 2005 SP1. Since then we have seen a number of customers install the QFE and we have especially enjoyed hearing about your successful experiences with the QFE. Jim has also recently blogged about macros to control the ...

Controlling IntelliSense Through Macros

November 19, 2007 Nov 19, 2007 11/19/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Jim Springfield, and I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team.  When I recently blogged (http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/11/12/performance-improvements-in-visual-c.aspx) about improvements to Intellisense and overall UI responsiveness, I mentioned that there was a new mechanism that allows a developer to ...

Performance Improvements in Visual C++

November 12, 2007 Nov 12, 2007 11/12/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Jim Springfield, and I’m an architect on the Visual C++ team.  I recently spent two months working on some core improvements to how VC deals with Intellisense as well as overall UI responsiveness.We observed a strong correlation between the severity of these performance issues and the size of the projects and ...

Quick Tour Of New MFC Functionality

November 9, 2007 Nov 9, 2007 11/9/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  I’m pleased to give you a sneak peek at a major MFC update we’ve been working on.  Since we’re adding a number of cool new user interface components to MFC, this blog post is going to be graphics heavy.  I’d much rather show you some...