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Visual Studio 2010 CTP released

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Visual CPP Team
We are very pleased to announce that we have released Visual Studio 2010 CTP at the PDC today. See our earlier posts on this topic. The goal of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) is to obtain feedback from you on the new scenarios that we have enabled. We have defined step-by-step walkthroughs to help you discover these new scenarios. You ...

Follow-up Post on VC at the PDC

October 22, 2008 Oct 22, 2008 10/22/08
Visual CPP Team
Hello After my recent post on VC at the PDC I had a number of people ask me which PDC sessions I would be attending (in other words, what sessions may interest a C++ developer.) I should say that these represent my own particular interests but I am happy to list these here as a suggestion and also to say that if anyone wants to talk to me...

Ribbon UI

October 15, 2008 Oct 15, 2008 10/15/08
Visual CPP Team
For those interested in using the Ribbon UI, take a look at the just published guidelines at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc872782.aspx ...

VC at the PDC

October 10, 2008 Oct 10, 2008 10/10/08
Visual CPP Team
Hello Everyone on the VC team is getting really excited about the upcoming PDC in Los Angeles. This will be our first chance to show you some of our upcoming features and a great way for us to get feedback direct from you on what we have implemented so far and what we have planned. PDCs are always one of our most exciting events to speak ...

The Mallocator

August 28, 2008 Aug 28, 2008 08/28/08
Visual CPP Team
A common question from programmers who have an intermediate amount of experience with using the STL is, "How do I write an STL allocator?".  Writing an STL allocator is not especially difficult - only two member functions are interesting, allocate() and deallocate().  However, STL allocators must satisfy a number of other ...

Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08
Visual CPP Team
Hello, everyone.  This is Pat Brenner.  I’m an SDE on the Visual C++ Libraries team.We’ve just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and it includes about 55 fixes to the MFC library.  Many of these fixes are for the new features that were added in the Feature Pack, but others were bugs in the RTM version of Visual Studio...

TR1 Fixes In VC9 SP1

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Visual CPP Team
STL enjoys speaking in the third person and also enjoys bringing you this exclusive news: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VC9 SP1) contains the TR1 and MFC library extensions that were originally released in the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Refresh.  But wait!  VC9 SP1 also contains many delicious fixes for TR1 and MFC. ...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM Now Available

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Visual CPP Team
Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. Not only does this service pack include the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but also addresses a range of issues found through customer and partner feedback.  Issues found since SP1 beta have been fixed in the release. ...

IconWorkshop Lite Now Available for Download

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Visual CPP Team
Once you’ve built a great looking application, you’ll likely want to provide equally great looking icons and toolbar bitmaps.  Unfortunately, the bitmap editing tools included in Visual Studio are far from state-of-the-art.  They haven’t been updated for a long time and simply don’t provide a rich set of tools...