C++ Team Blog

Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL

January 16, 2007 Jan 16, 2007 01/16/07

Visual CPP Team

Jensen Harris’ blog hosts an interesting article on Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL.  RibbonX is the user interface extensibility model for Office developers.  The article is written by Eric Faller who’s one of the developers behind the design and implementation of RibbonX. For more info about RibbonX, check out the ...

Spy++ Internals

January 16, 2007 Jan 16, 2007 01/16/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Pat Brenner and I’m a software design engineer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  I recently rejoined the Visual C++ team after almost 10 years in the Visual Studio environment team.  I am also the owner of Spy++.  While I did not originally write Spy++, I owned it from around 1993 until around 2003, and now...

An Update to STL/CLR is Complete!

December 22, 2006 Dec 22, 2006 12/22/06

Visual CPP Team

Hello everyone,I am excited to announce that the Visual C++ libraries team has completed another major update of STL/CLR and integrated it with Visual C++ Orcas. Depending on the schedule of internal integrations, you should expect to see this new version of STL/CLR in the February or March CTP for Visual Studio (codename Orcas). We are also ...

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released

December 18, 2006 Dec 18, 2006 12/18/06

Visual CPP Team

The Visual C++ team is excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2005 SP1!!!  The Service pack launched on Friday December 15, 2006 and is available for download here: VS2005SP1   This SP addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. There are over ...

Vista-style File Dialogs with MFC

December 14, 2006 Dec 14, 2006 12/14/06

Visual CPP Team

Hey all,  I’m Peter-Michael Osera, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ Compiler Front End.  As the VC++ team winds down for the holidays, we’d like to share some of the new features that we’re excited about adding into Orcas.  As for my part, I’ve been helping out the libraries team with their work ...

Bugs reported on the Connect website – pardon our faux pas

December 11, 2006 Dec 11, 2006 12/11/06

Visual CPP Team

Hello On the Visual C++ team we really value customer feedback and strive to make every interaction between ourselves and our customers as rewarding as possible. Recently we were reading a post on one of our Forums and were concerned to see a customer commenting about not receiving feedback on Visual C++ bugs they had reported on the ...

Managed Extensions for C++ to C++/CLI conversion tool

December 7, 2006 Dec 7, 2006 12/7/06

Visual CPP Team

As you may already know from previous communications, members of the Visual C++ team have (occasionally) worked on a tool to assist developers who wanted to port their source code from the “Managed Extensions for C++” syntax to the new “C++/CLI” syntax. As mentioned in the earlier post, the intended audience of the tool...

Converting to MSBuild

December 6, 2006 Dec 6, 2006 12/6/06

Visual CPP Team

Hi, My name is Andreea Isac and I’ve been a member of the Visual C++ Libraries team for one year and a half. Since almost all my team mates (Martyn Lovell, Ale Contenti, George Mileka, Alan Chan) have posted already, I won’t repeat what our team is responsible for! I have been involved for many months in the conversion ...

Visual C++ at TechEd Europe 2006

November 11, 2006 Nov 11, 2006 11/11/06

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I'm Steve Teixeira, the Group Program Manager for Visual C++.  Ayman Shoukry and I had the pleasure of spending the week in Barcelona to represent the Visual C++ product group at TechEd Europe, and I'd like to tell you a little about it. We had four sessions dedicated to Visual C++ in all: Marcus Heege gave a whiteboard session called...

Gauntlet: A peek into Visual C++ development practices

November 2, 2006 Nov 2, 2006 11/2/06

Visual CPP Team

I’m Bruce Forstall, a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team. I currently work on the implementation of the CLR CodeDOM API for C++/CLI, which supports the WinForms designer as well as a number of other scenarios. Previously, I’ve worked on the Itanium code generator, the Java virtual machine team, and the Cairo OS project (anyone ...