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Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

Algorithm Optimizations – Advanced STL, Part 2

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11
Visual CPP Team
Part 2 of my video lecture series exploring the Standard Template Library's implementation is now available.  In this part, I walk through how our STL algorithms equal() and copy() use template metaprogramming to detect when it's safe to call memcmp() and memmove(), which are potentially faster than the generic loops. In Part 1's ...

C++/CLI IntelliSense in Visual Studio vNext

March 3, 2011 Mar 3, 2011 03/3/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Recently Mohsen & Craig talked about a Renaissance within C++ development and Tony talked rebuilding our developer communication around C++, both of these videos touched on the subject of providing a more real world pragmatic discussion around why we do things and what we’re planning. This post is the first in a series of posts we&...

Tony Goodhew on Visual C++ Developer Communication

March 1, 2011 Mar 1, 2011 03/1/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Charles Torre, our C++ fan in Channel 9, just posted an interview he made a few days ago to Tony Goodhew: a Microsoft veteran in the Developer Tools Division who has returned home to his roots in VC++ after working as a product manager on VC6. One of Tony's priorities is effectively communicating with developer customers who ...

C++ Renaissance: First Symptoms of Contagion in Traditionally Non-Native Teams

February 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011 02/24/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
You may already know Pete Brown but if you don’t, I’ll briefly introduce him here: he’s, like me, a Community Program Manager with Microsoft but while I’m focused on C/C++ languages and the Visual C++ tool, he’s devoted to client-side development technologies (mainly WPF and Silverlight, with some Windows Phone 7 and XNA, a bit less ...

Can Touch This: Developer Guidance for Touch-Enabled Applications

February 21, 2011 Feb 21, 2011 02/21/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Those who, beside this blog, read Windows Developer resources, may have noticed that at the beginning of this month that sibling team released a “Windows 7 Touch Application Development Guidance”. This guidance is purposed to make you learn about: This is ideal for software developers who want to take full advantage ...

MFC Application Instance Control

February 18, 2011 Feb 18, 2011 02/18/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
An interesting question, asked days ago in one of our C++ forums, was the following: A possible approach, based in mutex (mutual exclusion) objects, was posted a few hours later. In the proposed schema you declare a mutex object inside the MFC application class (i.e. the class header): When you define the MFC application ...