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The latest in C++, Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg from the MSFT C++ team

Improvements to Find all references in Visual Studio 2010

November 17, 2009 Nov 17, 2009 11/17/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Raman Sharma, and I am a Program Manager on the VC++ team.  Through this blog post, I wish to highlight some changes we have made to an important feature in the C++ IDE, called “Find all References”.  As most of you would know, this feature is used to search for references to any element of your code (classes, ...

Visual C++ Precompiled Header Errors on Windows 7

November 12, 2009 Nov 12, 2009 11/12/09
Visual CPP Team
Several customers have encountered the following error while using the Visual C++ compiler on Windows 7: fatal error C1859: 'stdafx.pch' unexpected precompiled header error, simply rerunning the compiler might fix this problem This error manifests under the following conditions:·        ...

Steps to Open Actionable Bugs

November 10, 2009 Nov 10, 2009 11/10/09
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, test lead from the Visual C++ Compiler Backend team. I joined Visual C++ team 4 years  ago and helped ship VS2005 and VS2008. In this blog, I would like to introduce you to the most effective way of reporting actionable bugs to us.Where to open the bug When you find a bug, the best way for you to ...

Visual C++ Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010

November 2, 2009 Nov 2, 2009 11/2/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I’m Ten Tzen, a Compiler Architect on the Visual C++ Compiler Code Generation team. Today, I’m going to introduce some noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio 2010.  Faster LTCG Compilation:  LTCG (Link Time Code Generation) allows the compiler to perform better optimizations with information on all modules in the...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Is Now Available For Download

October 22, 2009 Oct 22, 2009 10/22/09
Visual CPP Team
We are very pleased to announce we have released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  You can read the official Beta 2 announcement on Soma’s blog. The Visual C++ team has added a few new features and, of course, many bug fixes. The additional features include some substantial new functionality in the MFC library and the return of the MFC ...

Visual C++ Code Model in Visual Studio 2010

October 14, 2009 Oct 14, 2009 10/14/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I’m Vytautas Leonavičius, a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team. Today, I’d like to discuss how the new principles we’re applying to code browsing in Visual Studio 2010 (see here and here) will affect VCCodeModel.  General information about VCCodeModel can be found here.ImprovementsBecause of our new ...

The ATL/MFC Trace Tool and the Tracing Mechanism

October 8, 2009 Oct 8, 2009 10/8/09
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group.  Some time back I wrote about Spy++.  Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging tool, the ATL/MFC Trace Tool, and the tracing mechanism that it interacts with in ATL and MFC. The tracing mechanism The tracing mechanism is used ...

Ribbon Designer

October 1, 2009 Oct 1, 2009 10/1/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Samatha Mannem and I am a QA with the IDE team. The world has become sophisticated and the time has come to make every application geeky as well as fancy. That is where ‘Ribbon’ has evolved. The recent UI designs that people are attracted to are Microsoft Office and Windows 7 ribbons. While Visual Studio 2008 SP1 included...

User Feedback

September 23, 2009 Sep 23, 2009 09/23/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello! My name is Joshua Baxter, and I am a programming writer on the Microsoft team that produces Help content for Visual C++. I am writing this article to explain how Microsoft collects and handles user feedback.   User feedback is an important part of our documentation improvement program. We maintain over 33,000 topics about C++, and ...