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Video Introduction to the STL, Part 3

August 13th, 2010
The third part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available, following Part 1 and Part 2.  Part 3 covers unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and exception handling (briefly).  It explains my solution to the container erasure problem, and presents a significantly larger homework problem: writing a Nurikabe...

The Filterator

August 9th, 2010
My name is Ahmed Charles and I currently work on Windows Error Reporting.  I believe that this is the first time that someone not on the VC team has written a blog, but I hope you will find it useful anyways.  I’d like to thank Stephan T. Lavavej for the idea and valuable feedback while writing it.  And we both owe the ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 2

July 22nd, 2010
The second part of my video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library is now available.  This part covers the STL's associative containers and the erase-remove idiom.  It assumes that you've watched Part 1. More parts are on their way!  Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see. Stephan T. ...

How we test the compiler performance

July 7th, 2010
The C++ back-end team is very conscious of the performance of our product.  Today I will present to you an overview of how we define “performance of our product” and the way we measure it.  Along the way I hope to introduce you to some new ideas that you can use to test your product’s performance as well. You can ...

Video Introduction to the STL, Part 1

July 2nd, 2010
I recently recorded the first part of a video lecture series introducing the Standard Template Library.  It assumes familiarity with C++, but begins with the STL basically from scratch.  Channel 9 hooked up my laptop so I could write, compile, and execute code as I went along.  Check it out here: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/...

C++ debugging survey

June 25th, 2010
The Visual Studio Debugger Team is currently planning features for the next release of Visual Studio.  We would like to hear from our C++ developers to make sure that their needs are understood.  Please take a couple of minutes to complete the very short survey below.  The survey is totally anonymous and the data that you ...

VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack

June 18th, 2010
Recently we announced the availability of Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for MSDN subscribers which complements the Architecture tools in VS2010. There is great C/C++ code visualization support in there. Read a blog post by Somasegar here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2010/06/17/modeling-websites-and-native-code.aspx ...

A post about editor extension for security and banned APIs

June 15th, 2010
Security is something we take very seriously and we work with a number of teams across the company to keep native apps as secure as possible. An example of this in Visual Studio 2010 was our work on the GS flag. One of our colleagues, Tim Burrell, who has helped us develop these ideas has written a post on the Security Development Lifecycle ...

Exploring the Visual C++ Browse Database

June 9th, 2010
Hello, this is Jim Springfield.  This post will cover some low-level details about how we represent information in the browse database in VS 2010.  As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, we are using SQL Server Compact Edition (SSCE) for storing information about all of the C, C++, and IDL files in your solution.  I will ...

How we test the compiler backend

June 1st, 2010
My name is Alex Thaman and I am a Senior Test Lead on the Visual C++ compiler team at Microsoft.  The focus of this blog is testing of the compiler backend where I’ve spent a good portion of my time here.  For those not aware, this is the part of the compiler that takes an intermediate representation as an input, does ...