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My name is Hongwei Qi and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ compiler code generation team. In this post I want to share with you the enhancements planned for the GS feature in Visual Studio 2010. Evolution of GS A lot of code written in C and C++ has vulnerabilities that leave their users open to buffer overrun at...
Hello everyone, I’m Asmaa Taha; I’m a test developer in the Visual C++ compiler optimization test team.Our Team has various testing systems that automate the testing and reporting processes to convey the state of the product to our feature teams. Some of them are useful in automating the feature testing we have for the compiler (and mak...
Hello,My name is Rashid Sarwar and I am on Visual C++ Compiler Front End team. I have been on this team for several months and have learned many things on how to test a complier. In this post I will be sharing with you how we test our Visual C++ compiler and it’s Intellisense. Testing features in a compiler is not easy as each feature/co...
Hello, As you know, we love to come and visit our customers every chance we get (PDC, TechEd and various country tours), but this time we thought we would do something at our place. We are running a Development Laboratory here in Redmond from May 4th through 8th (this definitely does not preclude people from outside Redmond participating ho...
Hi, I’m Jerry Goodwin from the Visual C++ code generation and optimization team, with a couple quick tips on using Whole Program Optimization, also referred to as Link Time Code Generation (LTCG). If you’re writing native C++ code, you can typically speed up your optimized code by about another 3-4% by adding the /GL flag to your ...
Hi, I am Weidong Huang, a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ group. Today I am going to talk about MFC’s support of Restart Manager functionality -- a very amazing feature in VS2010. What is Restart Manager? Restart Manager is a new feature introduced by Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It can help...
Part 1 of this series covered lambdas, auto, and static_assert. Today, I'm going to talk about rvalue references, which enable two different things: move semantics and perfect forwarding. This post will be long, because I'm going to explain how rvalue references work in great detail. They're initially very confusing because they distinguish l...
Hello, I’m Mark Hall, an architect in the Visual C++ group. I wanted to follow up on Jim Springfield’s previous blogs about the history of C++ intellisense, and some of the changes we’re making in upcoming Visual Studio 10 release. It’s been almost a year since Jim’s posts, which can be found here: ...
Recently our colleagues over at PCP (the Parallel Computing Platform team) have been doing a number of Channel 9 videos - on their most recent taping they asked Damien Watkins from VC++ to join them. Why? Well the focus of the video was around the journey towards getting the PCP bits shaped and shipped in VS2010. Damien has been the VC++ Prog...
Hello, my name is Raul Perez, I’m part of the Visual C++ IDE team and I’m going to talk about test hooks. When writing automated testing for specific features in your applications you usually have to figure out how you’ll actually get the information you need without going through all the steps you would usually through the...