We are very excited to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available for download. We encourage you to go ahead and try out this release. Please remember that this is a beta so some caution is advised. The goal of this beta is to gather feedback from the community. Please use the connect site to report any issues or improveme...

Hi, I am Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, test lead on the Phoenix compiler backend team. Phoenix is a platform and analysis framework. For more information on Phoenix you can listen to the talk given by one of our architects, Andy Ayers, on Channel 9 https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=396461. Our compiler test cases include compiling large ...

A Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack article written by Kenny Kerr just got published on the May issue of the MSDN Magazine. Check out the article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507634.aspx.Thanks,Visual C++ Development Team 

Enums, Macros, Unicode and Token-PastingHi, I am Rocky a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team.  I would like to discuss the C++ programming technique of creating macro generated enums.  I recently used this for distinguishing various C++ types such as class, variable, and function.  Having the list of types in one file makes it easy ...

Hello, everyone. This is Jessica Liu. I’m an SDET on the VC Libraries team. During the past few months, I have spent most of my working hours on testing the new MFC components. Now the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has been released. This update is not going to cost you one cent if you already have Visual Studio 2008 RTM installed. But porting your...

Per our previous announcement regarding the Feature Pack deployment & setup issues, we have subsequently released a refresh of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack. You can obtain the refresh from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d466226b-8dab-445f-a7b4-448b326c48e7&displaylang=en. Here is a summary of the issues that we...

Some customers have reported issues with vcvars32.bat in VS2008 after installing the Windows Server 2008 SDK. Karin Meier from the WinSDK Team just posted a workaround at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3204202&SiteID=1&mode=1 Thanks,Visual C++ Development Team

Unfortunately, a set of setup & deployment issues have been reported with the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack. Some of these are blocking issues and, as a result, we are currently working on a refresh of the Feature Pack.  In the interim, a list of the issues and their workarounds is provided below.  These issues will all be addressed via the refr...

To celebrate the recent release of the next interim version of the Phoenix SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/phoenix), we asked Charles to do another of his excellent Channel 9 videos on Phoenix (and it has been a little since the last Channel 9 video on Phoenix too.) Andy Ayers, an Architect on the Phoenix project, spent an hour talking about the ...

Late last year, the Visual C++ team announced that we would focus more squarely on native code development. One of the areas highlighted in that message was renewed investment in native libraries. We’re pleased, then, to announce the release of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack!  The Feature Pack is a freely available download to any...