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Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the Visual C++ team. During the development of Visual Studio 2010 he has been feverously working on converting our build system to target MS Build as the build infrastructure for  Visual C++ 2010 Solutions/Projects. There are many reasons motivating this changeover. For awhile now having to deal with two diffe...

David LeBlanc and Michael Howard literally wrote the book on “Writing Secure Code”. David has also developed the SafeInt  class, a template class that performs “checked” operations on integer types (with a name like SafeInt what else would you expect). In VS2010 we decided to ship the SafeInt class in the box, so users ...

Hello everyone, My name is Raman Sharma and I am a PM on the VC++ IDE team.  I want to talk about a new feature called Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio 10.  As the name suggests, it is used for navigating all functions called from within a particular function and all functions that make calls to a particular function.  Many of you wou...

The VS Project team, part of Platform team, own the C# and VB project systems brought their expertise to the table along with the VC++ team to give you an extensible and much more powerful project system.  The team maintains a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vsproject/ where we will blog about project system topics in much more detail. Stay Tune...

Hi, My name is Bogdan Mihalcea and I’m a developer on the C++ Project & Build team. In the last 2 years I worked on a new C++ project system build on top MSBuild. I’m writing this blog to share some excellent news related to improvements we made to the performance of project conversion since the Beta1 build. This was possi...

Thanks to a recent VC Blog post by Hongwei Qi, you already know that we have worked on our /GS switch for VS2010. You can already try it out with the VS2010 Beta 1 too. Recently Charles Torre from Channel 9 stopped by and spoke with one of our Channel 9 regular speakers Louis Lafreniere about this work. Native code developers care deeply about gett...

Hello, I’m Mitchell Slep, a developer on the Visual C++ compiler team.  I’m very excited to tell you about a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 - C++ IntelliSense can now display compiler-quality syntax and semantic errors as you browse and edit your code!  We display a wavy underline or “squiggle” in your code at t...

The Visual C++ team is hosting a summit with ISVs in the San Jose / Bay Area next week. We have two full days packed with sessions centered on native code. Attendees will learn how Visual C++ 2008 provides a powerful and flexible development environment for creating Microsoft Windows–based applications. In addition, now that we have released ...

Hi, my name is Boris Jabes. I've been working on the C++ team for over 4 years now (you may have come across my blog, which has gone stale...). Over the past couple of years, the bulk of my time has been spent on re-designing our IDE infrastructure so that we may provide rich functionality for massive code bases. Our goal is to enable developers of...

As Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1was being released, Charles Torre from Channel 9 came over to the Visual C++ team to talk about some of our new features. On this visit he spoke with Stephan T. Lavavej and myself about our VS2010 STL implementation. As Charles says on the Channel 9 page:  “We have already heard about many of the language...