C++ Team Blog

TR1 Fixes In VC9 SP1

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08

Visual CPP Team

STL enjoys speaking in the third person and also enjoys bringing you this exclusive news: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VC9 SP1) contains the TR1 and MFC library extensions that were originally released in the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Refresh.  But wait!  VC9 SP1 also contains many delicious fixes for TR1 and MFC. ...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM Now Available

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08

Visual CPP Team

Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. Not only does this service pack include the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but also addresses a range of issues found through customer and partner feedback.  Issues found since SP1 beta have been fixed in the release. ...

IconWorkshop Lite Now Available for Download

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08

Visual CPP Team

Once you’ve built a great looking application, you’ll likely want to provide equally great looking icons and toolbar bitmaps.  Unfortunately, the bitmap editing tools included in Visual Studio are far from state-of-the-art.  They haven’t been updated for a long time and simply don’t provide a rich set of tools...

Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

July 17, 2008 Jul 17, 2008 07/17/08

Visual CPP Team

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...

TechEd 2008 – meeting customers at the booth!

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08

Visual CPP Team

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 ...

Interesting Visual C++ Resources

June 12, 2008 Jun 12, 2008 06/12/08

Visual CPP Team

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. ...

Data-driven Visual C++ Editing Test Framework

June 9, 2008 Jun 9, 2008 06/9/08

Visual CPP Team

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....

Some C++ Gotchas

June 5, 2008 Jun 5, 2008 06/5/08

Visual CPP Team

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...