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

STL Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

May 25, 2009 May 25, 2009 05/25/09
Visual CPP Team
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for download.  I've recently blogged about how Visual C++ in VS 2010 Beta 1, which I refer to as VC10 Beta 1, contains compiler support for five C++0x core language features: lambdas, auto, static_assert, rvalue references, and decltype.  It also contains a substantially rewritten ...

/DYNAMICBASE and /NXCOMPAT

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Xiang Fan and I am a developer on the C++ Shanghai team. Today I’d like to talk about two linker options related to security: /DYNAMICBASE and /NXCOMPAT.   These two options are introduced in VS2005, and target to improve the overall security of native applications.   You can set these two options explicitly in VS...

Using the Windows 7 RC SDK in Visual C++ 2010 Beta 1

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Visual CPP Team
Though the Windows 7 RC SDK was released about 2 weeks before Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, it was not possible to incorporate that release into VS 2010 Beta 1. As a result, the Windows SDK components that ship as part of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 are the Windows 7 Beta SDK versions. This post will describe how you can use the Native ...

VC++ IDE / Design Time Stress Testing

May 11, 2009 May 11, 2009 05/11/09
Visual CPP Team
Hi, my name is Jianhua Li, and I am a VC++ IDE QA. Today I am going to talk about VC++ IDE / Design Time stress testing. What is stress testing? Design Time Stress (DTS) is part of a broader set of reliability quality criteria focused on measuring an application's robustness, availability and reliability under stressful conditions.  It's ...

decltype: C++0x Features in VC10, Part 3

April 22, 2009 Apr 22, 2009 04/22/09
Visual CPP Team
Part 1 of this series covered lambdas, auto, and static_assert. Part 2 of this series covered rvalue references, which enable move semantics and perfect forwarding. Today, I'm going to talk about decltype, which allows perfect forwarding functions to have arbitrary return types.  It's of interest to people who are writing highly...

Tech-Ed North America 2009

April 9, 2009 Apr 9, 2009 04/9/09
Visual CPP Team
Most of you must be aware of the upcoming Microsoft® Tech·Ed North America 2009 in Los Angeles.  This event provides hands-on learning, deep product exploration and opportunities to connect with industry and Microsoft experts one-to-one.  Anyone attending and interested in C++ development will find the following Tech.Ed ...

VC MSBuild Extensibility Example

April 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009 04/1/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Felix Huang and I am a developer on the Visual C++ team.  Over the last year, I worked on making the build system in Visual Studio 2010 more flexible with MSBuild system as the foundation.  For those who felt the need to use batch scripts to power your builds, I hope that this new system would provide you with that...

Interested in using web services in your native C/C++ code?

March 31, 2009 Mar 31, 2009 03/31/09
Visual CPP Team
If you are planning to use web services in your native C/C++, here is how you can learn how you can do that. 1)      On 04/01/2009, Nikola Dudar will be hosting a web cast on Windows Web Services API as part of   Microsoft Virtual TechDays for Developers. Nikola is going to introduce Windows Web ...

Some VS2005 and VS2008 Wizards Pop Up Script Error.

March 28, 2009 Mar 28, 2009 03/28/09
Visual CPP Team
Visual C++ team has discovered that after installing the current release of Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 8), some VC++ wizards do not function correctly.  The products affected are Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.  Following are the affected wizards:-          Add ...