C++ Team Blog

Quick Tips On Using Whole Program Optimization

February 24, 2009 Feb 24, 2009 02/24/09

Visual CPP Team

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 ...

MFC Restart Manager Support in VS2010

February 18, 2009 Feb 18, 2009 02/18/09

Visual CPP Team

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...

Rvalue References: C++0x Features in VC10, Part 2

February 3, 2009 Feb 3, 2009 02/3/09

Visual CPP Team

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 ...

Dev10 Is Just The Beginning

January 27, 2009 Jan 27, 2009 01/27/09

Visual CPP Team

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: &...

Moving Test Hooks Outside Your Product’s Source Code

December 29, 2008 Dec 29, 2008 12/29/08

Visual CPP Team

 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 ...

VC9 SP1 Hotfix For The vector<function<FT>> Crash

December 17, 2008 Dec 17, 2008 12/17/08

Visual CPP Team

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...

MSBuild Task

December 16, 2008 Dec 16, 2008 12/16/08

Visual CPP Team

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 (...

VC++ are participating in a “Slow Chat” over at “Code Guru”

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08

Visual CPP Team

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...

Inheriting From a Native C++ Class in C#

December 8, 2008 Dec 8, 2008 12/8/08

Visual CPP Team

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 ...