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Back in August, I blogged about the TR1 fixes in VC9 SP1.  An observant reader, grokbrsm, commented that vector<function<FT>> was broken by VC9 SP1.  A hotfix for this bug is now available:  Here is the updated link to download the hotfix: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?Down...

Hello again! My name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ group. As one of my colleagues, Marian Luparu, has blogged in detail about, and Soma has mentioned in his recent blog as well, one of the important features we have in VS2010 is to enable C++ customers to build C++ applications using MSBuild. MSBuild (Micro...

Hello Just a short note to let you know that members of VC++ are participating in a “Slow Chat” over at “Code Guru” this week. We always enjoy reading feedback and (hopefully) answering questions - and this gives us a different venue (and as they say “a change is as good as a holiday”.) http://www.codeguru.com/...

Hi, this is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team.  I have blogged in the past about our IDE and Intellisense work.  I am still heavily focused on that and we are working hard to deliver an improved experience, but this post is about a completely different topic.  A few months ago, I started thinking about how to acces...

Hello everybody, Let me introduce myself, my name is Lukasz Chodorski and I am a new SDE in the Visual C++ Libraries Team. In this post I would like to present to you the CTaskDialog class which wraps the Windows API* in the MFC library. What actually is the CTaskDialog? It is a class/component which can be easily customized depending on your appli...

Recently, Soma, Vice President for the Microsoft Developer Division, blogged about the enhancements of Visual C++ in VS 2010.  Please check out what he has to say and feel free to leave comments for him on our upcoming release.  You can find this blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/11/21/c-enhancements-in-vs-201...

Hello everyone. I’m Marian Luparu and I am a Program Manager in the Visual C++ IDE team. Last week I was in Barcelona attending TechEd EMEA 2008 where I had two talks delving into the areas where the VC++ IDE team is making major investments in the upcoming release: ·         Building Visual C++...

Hi.  I’m Arjun Bijanki, the test lead for the compiler front-end and Intellisense engine.  One afternoon a few months ago, I was sitting in my office in building 41 thinking about test passes, when an animated discussion between a couple of colleagues spilled into the hallway and grabbed my attention.  My recollection is that B...

HelloAmit has just done a Channel9 video on the VS2010 CTP, around our theme of “10 is the new 6”, please stop by and have a look: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-CPP-10-10-is-the-new-6/ ThanksDamien

Pogo aka PGO aka Profile Guided Optimization My name is Lawrence Joel and I am a Software Developer Engineer in Testing working with the C/C++ Backend Compiler group.  For today's topic I want to blog about a pretty cool compiler optimization called Profile Guided Optimization (PGO or Pogo as we in the C/C++ team would like to call it).  ...