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April 7, 2008 Apr 7, 2008 04/7/08

Visual CPP Team

Late last year, the Visual C++ team announced that we would focus more squarely on native code development. One of the areas highlighted in that message was renewed investment in native libraries. We’re pleased, then, to announce the release of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack! The Feature Pack is a freely available download ...

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released!

April 7, 2008 Apr 7, 2008 04/7/08

Visual CPP Team

The final release of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack is now available for download. This release provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC and an implementation of TR1. These features are fully covered under Microsoft’s standard support policies. The Feature Pack is ...

Protecting Your Code with Visual C++ Defenses by Michael Howard

March 20, 2008 Mar 20, 2008 03/20/08

Visual CPP Team

The March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine includes a nice article about protecting your C/C++ programs. You can check out the article at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337897.aspx.Thanks,Visual C++ Team...

Visual Studio 2008 Enum Bit Flags Visualization

March 10, 2008 Mar 10, 2008 03/10/08

Visual CPP Team

In Visual Studio 2008 we introduced a useful, but not very well known, feature in the Native Debugger for visualizing enum bit flags. Consider the following code: enum x { bit_none = 0, bit1 = 1, bit2 = (1 << 1), bit3 = (1 <<...

Approaches to Testing

March 6, 2008 Mar 6, 2008 03/6/08

Visual CPP Team

My name is Martha Wieczorek and I’m a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ IDE team. I would like to share with you some different testing approaches that we use on the team and talk about the advantages/disadvantages of each approach based on my experience. Testing effectively and efficiently becomes more and more ...

IntelliSense, Part 2 (The Future)

February 29, 2008 Feb 29, 2008 02/29/08

Visual CPP Team

Hi, Jim Springfield again. This post covers our current work to fundamentally change how we implement Intellisense and code browsing for C++ in Visual Studio 10. I previously covered the history of Intellisense and outlined many of the problems that we face. See here http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/12/18/...

Channel 9: Stephan T. Lavavej: Digging into C++ Technical Report 1 (TR1)

February 25, 2008 Feb 25, 2008 02/25/08

Visual CPP Team

Hello Recently we shipped a beta of our MFC/TR1 Feature Pack that, naturally enough, included a large update to MFC and an implementation of “TR1” (if you are unsure just what exactly TR1 is then you can read this VC Blog post.). To celebrate the TR1 availability, Charles Torre (Channel 9) visited with Stephan T. Lavavej, our ...

TR1 Slide Decks

February 22, 2008 Feb 22, 2008 02/22/08

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I'm Stephan, the Visual C++ Libraries Developer working on TR1. Recently, I gave 3 presentations within Microsoft about the most novel components of TR1: shared_ptr, regex, and the additions to <functional> (including mem_fn(), bind(), and tr1::function). These presentations explained where to use, how to use, and how ...

The Implications of Fixing a Corner Case Bug in a Common Code Path

February 18, 2008 Feb 18, 2008 02/18/08

Visual CPP Team

My name is Bogdan Mihalcea and I’m a developer in VC++ Development Team. For the last three years in the team I worked in almost all the areas of IDE (Intellisense, Project System, Resource Editor, Debugger). Recently we were engaged in fixing various bugs in our product for VS9 SP1. In multiple instances we were facing similar bugs that...

Prefast And SAL Annotations

February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08

Visual CPP Team

One thing that continues to amaze me are the powerful tools available to developers and QA nowadays. Application performance can be improved through profiling and optimization tools operating statically and/or dynamically on the binary (using PGO for example). Testing metrics become more accurate when using instrumentation and code...