Hello, my name is Raman Sharma, and I am a Program Manager on the VC++ team.  Through this blog post, I wish to highlight some changes we have made to an important feature in the C++ IDE, called “Find all References”.  As most of you would know, this feature is used to search for references to any element of your code (classes, class memb...

Several customers have encountered the following error while using the Visual C++ compiler on Windows 7: fatal error C1859: 'stdafx.pch' unexpected precompiled header error, simply rerunning the compiler might fix this problem This error manifests under the following conditions:·         The ...

Hi, I am Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, test lead from the Visual C++ Compiler Backend team. I joined Visual C++ team 4 years  ago and helped ship VS2005 and VS2008. In this blog, I would like to introduce you to the most effective way of reporting actionable bugs to us.Where to open the bug When you find a bug, the best way for you to report it,...

Hello, I’m Ten Tzen, a Compiler Architect on the Visual C++ Compiler Code Generation team. Today, I’m going to introduce some noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio 2010.  Faster LTCG Compilation:  LTCG (Link Time Code Generation) allows the compiler to perform better optimizations with information on all modules in the prog...

Stephan T. Lavavej is back in front of the Channel 9 cameras once again for a discussion on our recently implemented C++0x feature “nullptr”. In a previous channel 9 appearance, Stephan spoke about the C++0x language and library features we were implementing for VS2010  and the various interdependencies between various features (fo...

We are very pleased to announce we have released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  You can read the official Beta 2 announcement on Soma’s blog. The Visual C++ team has added a few new features and, of course, many bug fixes. The additional features include some substantial new functionality in the MFC library and the return of the MFC Class W...

Hello, I’m Vytautas Leonavičius, a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team. Today, I’d like to discuss how the new principles we’re applying to code browsing in Visual Studio 2010 (see here and here) will affect VCCodeModel.  General information about VCCodeModel can be found here.ImprovementsBecause of our new incremental ...

Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group.  Some time back I wrote about Spy++.  Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging tool, the ATL/MFC Trace Tool, and the tracing mechanism that it interacts with in ATL and MFC. The tracing mechanism The tracing mechanism is used to con...

Hello, my name is Samatha Mannem and I am a QA with the IDE team. The world has become sophisticated and the time has come to make every application geeky as well as fancy. That is where ‘Ribbon’ has evolved. The recent UI designs that people are attracted to are Microsoft Office and Windows 7 ribbons. While Visual Studio 2008 SP1 included the abil...

Hello! My name is Joshua Baxter, and I am a programming writer on the Microsoft team that produces Help content for Visual C++. I am writing this article to explain how Microsoft collects and handles user feedback.   User feedback is an important part of our documentation improvement program. We maintain over 33,000 topics about C++, and we re...