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Announcing Hilo

May 25th, 2010
What is Hilo? Project “Hilo” is an effort to tell the story of building high performing, responsive rich Windows applications using C++. We will do this by walking you through our own experience of building some sample applications which we believe provide differentiated user experiences. We will tell you everything from setting up the ...

Flexible Project-to-Project References

May 3rd, 2010
My name is Amit Mohindra and I am a Program Manager with the Visual C++ IDE team. In this post I would like to talk about project-to-project references. In VS2010 release we moved the C++ build and project system to be based on MSBuild. There is an excellent article written by Marian Luparu detailing the change and advantages of the new build/...

Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events

April 27th, 2010
In VS 2008, Visual C++ had a couple of the simple scenarios called Custom Build Step and Custom Build Tool.  This post will discuss a couple of the simple build extension options you have, and how they’ve changed since VS 2008. Andrew Arnott discusses these scenarios and how they work in VS 2010 here...

Quick Help on VS2010 Custom Build Rule

April 21st, 2010
Hi my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test for the C++ team. In my earlier blog “Visual Studio 2010 C++ Project Upgrade Guide”, I have mentioned about the change of Custom build Rules in VS2010. In this post, I would like to explain in more detail of the new format of the Custom Build Rules and some of its ...

Visual Studio 2010 is Now Available

April 13th, 2010
I am very happy to announce that Visual Studio 2010 is now officially available! The formal announcement can be found on Soma’s blog and you can download VS 2010 from here. Visual Studio 2010 is a great release for C++ developers. Top reasons you should look at VS2010: 1.       Performance and productivity...

Tweet your Questions on Channel 9 Live: DevConnections VS2010 Launch

April 12th, 2010
Today at 11am (PST), Charles Torre will be interviewing Kate Gregory and Richard Campbell for C9 Live at DevConnections Las Vegas to dig into improvements in the native stack in Visual Studio 2010. All native developers are encouraged to tune in and tweet questions for Kate and Richard. Watch Channel 9 Live go to http://live.ch9.ms on ...

C++0x Core Language Features In VC10: The Table

April 6th, 2010

VC++ Tip: Get detailed build throughput diagnostics using MSBuild, compiler and linker

April 1st, 2010
We know that build throughput for applications are a time crunch on developer productivity. We have spent some time on improving linker throughput and other areas in VS2010, and will continue to investigate improving overall build throughput in future releases. In this blog post, we will describe a couple of options to get diagnostics for ...

To the command line enthusiasts: Some quick know-hows for Upgrading to VS 2010

March 25th, 2010
Hello, I am Renin John, a Software Development Engineer in Test from the VC++ Project and Build team. I am aware that some of you prefer to do your daily work from the command prompt rather than from the IDE. I thought it would help if I put together instructions for the same using the knowledge I acquired testing Project Conversion. In ...

Visual C++ is coming to a city near you!

March 23rd, 2010
With the Visual Studio 2010 launch around the corner, members of the Visual C++ team will be traveling around the world to meet with you and showcase the many new features Visual Studio 2010 has to offer for C++ developers. If we are coming to a stop near you, feel free to drop us an email and let us know. We will be delighted to meet ...