Hello

We just wanted to mention that our own Tarek Madkour has recently written an MSDN article titled “An Inside Look At The Next Generation Of Visual C++”. Tarek is a Lead Program Manager on the Visual C++ team and  has been working on different areas of the Visual C++ IDE and compiler for the past six years. This article discusses “Visual Studio Codename Orcas” features such as:

• Targeting applications to Windows Vista

• Enhancements to MFC

• Preparing applications for User Account Control

• Marshaling native and CLR types

We hope you find it an interesting read (the article is currently rating 8 out of 9 on the MSDN quality poll) and please feel free send any questions/comments to us here on the VC Blog!