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Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework Hello, I am Manish Vasani, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Phoenix Analysis and Tools team. In this post, I’ll be giving a brief overview of the Phoenix Pereader-based Analysis tools with an emphasis on the difficulties traditionally involved in testing these types of tools and how Phoe...

Hello, my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in Visual C++ team. From June 3 to June 6, I had the opportunity to attend TechEd 2008 in Orlando along with two colleagues, Marian Luparu and Martha Wieczorek.  Most of my time was spent at the Visual C++ Booth to answer customers’ questions. I also had the opportunity t...

HelloStephan has just completed his latest channel 9 video, this one on debugging in our implementation of the STL: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/STL-Iterator-Debugging-and-Secure-SCL/. This topic gets a little confusing as we have two technologies available here, namely Iterator Debugging and Iterator Checking – if you are occas...

A few weeks ago the Visual C++ team delivered two days of technical content to developers down in Northern California.  At this event, we mentioned a large number of useful resources.  We thought we’d take the opportunity to pass them on to readers of the blog as well.  Hopefully you’ll find them valuable. Debugging ...

Hello, I am Smile, a member of the QA team on Visual C++ Compiler Team. I would like to write about the methods we use to verify the intellisense results while editing in the Visual C++ IDE. To better understand this, consider the following common user scenario:Andy opens his project in IDE to continue his work the day before. He opens Client.cpp, ...

Hi - Jonathan Caves again.  Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen some reports from users that the C++ compiler does not act the way they think it should.  As it turns these reports weren’t real bugs, but the issues brought up are interesting enough to share with a wider audience. The first was from a customer who ...

A Channel9 video just got published where Russell Hadley (Senior Developer on the VC++ Team) speaks more about the VC compiler. Check out the video at https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=405345Thanks,Visual C++ Development Team 

Hello, I am George Mileka, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries Team. After we released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack back in April, we got a lot of useful feedback from MVPs and customers. One of the areas that definitely needed clarification is the version dependency embedded in the generated manifest. The question goes like this: Why ...

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 ...