C++ Team Blog

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 ...

VS 2010 and Source Control Providers

March 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010 03/16/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I recently explained the reasons behind the project settings changes we made for VS 2010. Let me describe to you today, how some of these changes may impact source control providers. The new .vcxproj extension and SCC We changed the C++ project file format in VS2010, migrating to the new MSBuild syntax, and we changed the project file ...

MFC applications now default to being DPI-aware

March 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010 03/11/10

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, mainly responsible for MFC.  I wanted to make you aware of a subtle but meaningful change that we have made regarding MFC applications in Visual Studio 2010: all MFC applications are now marked as ‘DPI aware’ by default.  This means that your application is ...

IntelliSense/Browsing options in VC++ 2010

March 9, 2010 Mar 9, 2010 03/9/10

Visual CPP Team

Now that Dev10 is getting close to release I want to describe in detail the various options we have included for controlling browsing and IntelliSense in VC++.  Note:  All information here is specifically about C and C++ and does not apply to C# or VB.  Some of the information contained in this blog will be available as part of...

Visual Studio 2010 C++ Project Upgrade Guide

March 2, 2010 Mar 2, 2010 03/2/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Li Shao. I am Software Design Engineer in Test on the C++ team. As has been mentioned in many of the blogs, for example, recent blog by Felix Huang, the blog by Andreea Issac and my earlier blog, one of the major improvements in this release is that the C++ build system is moving from the VCBuild based system to the MSBuild ...

Improving C++ Intellisense Performance with PCH

February 19, 2010 Feb 19, 2010 02/19/10

Visual CPP Team

Thank you to everyone who has submitted feedback on the Visual Studio Release Candidate. We have received feedback that C++ Intellisense performance is slower. One way to improve this is to enable Pre-Compiled Headers usage for Intellisense parser. Andy Rich has written a detailed post on intellisense PCH usage that gives some additional ...

Project settings changes with VS2010

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am Andreea Isac, a developer on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. I would like to present you a summary of all project settings that are stored in a different manner or place with Visual Studio 2010, compared with previous VS releases.   MSBuild syntax If you explore your project files on disk, you will notice that our default ...

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Is Now Available For Download

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10

Visual CPP Team

We are very excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2010’s Release Candidate. The official announcement can be found on Soma’s blog. You can download the RC from this location and it includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment. This release incorporates many Customer Connect bug...

Windows7 and Visual C++ Developer Resources

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am Sridhar Madhugiri a Developer on the WinC++ team. I have worked in different areas of Visual C++ including Libraries, Code Gen and most recently on the IDE. In this blog entry, I will highlight development resources for new features in Windows 7. Integrating these features in your application can light up your application when run on...

ATL support for Transaction File System

February 2, 2010 Feb 2, 2010 02/2/10

Visual CPP Team

Hello, My name is Weidong Huang, and I am an SDET on the Visual C++ team. Today, I would like to talk a little about ATL support for Transaction File System in Visual Studio 2010. What is Transactional File System? Transactional File System is a new technology first introduced in Windows Vista. It enables you to roll back ...