C++ Team Blog

Quick Help on VS2010 Custom Build Rule

April 21, 2010 Apr 21, 2010 04/21/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test for the C++ team. In my earlier blog “Visual Studio 2010 C++ Project Upgrade Guide”, I have mentioned about the change of Custom build Rules in VS2010. In this post, I would like to explain in more detail of the new format of the Custom Build Rules and some of its ...

Visual Studio 2010 is Now Available

April 13, 2010 Apr 13, 2010 04/13/10

Visual CPP Team

I am very happy to announce that Visual Studio 2010 is now officially available! The formal announcement can be found on Soma’s blog and you can download VS 2010 from here. Visual Studio 2010 is a great release for C++ developers. Top reasons you should look at VS2010: 1.       Performance and productivity...

Tweet your Questions on Channel 9 Live: DevConnections VS2010 Launch

April 12, 2010 Apr 12, 2010 04/12/10

Visual CPP Team

Today at 11am (PST), Charles Torre will be interviewing Kate Gregory and Richard Campbell for C9 Live at DevConnections Las Vegas to dig into improvements in the native stack in Visual Studio 2010. All native developers are encouraged to tune in and tweet questions for Kate and Richard. Watch Channel 9 Live go to http://live.ch9.ms on ...

C++0x Core Language Features In VC10: The Table

April 6, 2010 Apr 6, 2010 04/6/10

Visual CPP Team

VC++ Tip: Get detailed build throughput diagnostics using MSBuild, compiler and linker

April 1, 2010 Apr 1, 2010 04/1/10

Visual CPP Team

We know that build throughput for applications are a time crunch on developer productivity. We have spent some time on improving linker throughput and other areas in VS2010, and will continue to investigate improving overall build throughput in future releases. In this blog post, we will describe a couple of options to get diagnostics for ...

To the command line enthusiasts: Some quick know-hows for Upgrading to VS 2010

March 25, 2010 Mar 25, 2010 03/25/10

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I am Renin John, a Software Development Engineer in Test from the VC++ Project and Build team. I am aware that some of you prefer to do your daily work from the command prompt rather than from the IDE. I thought it would help if I put together instructions for the same using the knowledge I acquired testing Project Conversion. In ...

Visual C++ is coming to a city near you!

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10

Visual CPP Team

With the Visual Studio 2010 launch around the corner, members of the Visual C++ team will be traveling around the world to meet with you and showcase the many new features Visual Studio 2010 has to offer for C++ developers. If we are coming to a stop near you, feel free to drop us an email and let us know. We will be delighted to meet ...

C++ Build Parallelization Post On Visual Studio blog

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10

Visual CPP Team

Visual Studio 2010 has some enhancements that provide an easy way to get faster builds on a multiprocessor computer through parallelism. Dan Moseley a Lead Developer on MSBuild has written a blog on the C++ Build Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010.   Thank you,   Marian Luparu and Kelly Evans Visual C++ Team...

VC++ Developer Survey

March 22, 2010 Mar 22, 2010 03/22/10

Visual CPP Team

As we wrap up Visual Studio 2010, we are starting to plan the next release of Visual C++. Our goal is to make Visual C++ a product that meets your needs. Thus we need your help.  We would like to better understand what you do. Please take a few minutes and answer the survey below. The survey is totally anonymous and the data that you ...

ActiveX Test Container Application is Still Available

March 18, 2010 Mar 18, 2010 03/18/10

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team.  I’ve noticed some posts on various forums lamenting the loss of the ActiveX Test Container application and I wanted to address those concerns. The ActiveX Text Container tool is still available as a sample in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.  It is ...