C++ Team Blog

Recruiting event: Microsoft TechFest ’07 – Southern California

January 31, 2008 Jan 31, 2008 01/31/08

Visual CPP Team

Happy New Year! My name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ IDE team.  In this blog entry, I would like to share with you some information about the recruiting event that I attended last fall. About 3 month ago, I attended Microsoft TechFest ’07 held in three Southern California Universities: ...

Channel 9: Arjun Bijanki: Making Sense of VC Intellisense

January 27, 2008 Jan 27, 2008 01/27/08

Visual CPP Team

Hello Our latest Channel 9 video has just been released. This video features Arjun Bijanki, one of our senior developers in test. Arjun works on the C++ Front End and his duties involve testing, amongst other functionality, our Intellisense engine. In this video Arjun talks about our current Intellisense architecture, how we test it and ...

Q&A on our TR1 implementation

January 8, 2008 Jan 8, 2008 01/8/08

Visual CPP Team

Hello.  My name is Stephan and I’m a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  As the Visual Studio 2008 Feature Pack Beta (available for download here with documentation available here) contains an implementation of TR1, I thought I’d answer some common questions about this technology. Q. What version of Visual C...

MFC Beta Now Available

January 7, 2008 Jan 7, 2008 01/7/08

Visual CPP Team

A beta version of a major MFC/TR1 feature pack is now available for download. Please note that this feature pack is only supported on systems which have the English language (ENU) version of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite or Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition installed.These components allow developers to create ...

Channel 9: George Mileka and Ben Anderson – Everything you wanted to know about VC++ deployment but were afraid to ask

January 7, 2008 Jan 7, 2008 01/7/08

Visual CPP Team

HelloCharles Torre of Channel 9 recently got together with George Mileka (Libraries Dev VC++) and Ben Anderson (Libraries QA VC++) to discuss the issues around deploying the Visual C++ libraries onto customer machines.  They discussed many important facets, such as the current set of options, when they should be used, the caveats around ...

Using different toolsets for vc build

December 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007 12/31/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am Olga Arkhipova and I am a VC IDE developer. I joined VC team about two years ago and inherited vc project and build system.  I’ve been using VC since VC2, so for me it is quite interesting to see and work on the code I’ve been using (or sometimes not using, because it did not do what I needed) for so long J ...

Just What Is This TR1 Thing?

December 26, 2007 Dec 26, 2007 12/26/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi there. Rob Huyett here again. I’m an SDET on the VC Libraries team. One of the things I’ve been working on lately is the new TR1 add-on for Visual Studio 2008. When VS 2008 TR1 support was announced about a month ago, I’m sure that the reaction varied from “Woo-hoo! I can’t wait!” to “Huh? What&...

IntelliSense History, Part 1

December 18, 2007 Dec 18, 2007 12/18/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello, this is Jim Springfield again.  I want to start explaining our plan to fundamentally change how IntelliSense and other code browsing features work for C/C++.  The recent GDR for VS2005 and the changes that went into VS2008 were significant, but they don’t really change how these features are implemented.  This post ...

How a program accesses functions

December 17, 2007 Dec 17, 2007 12/17/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I’m Alan Chan and I am a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  We all know that a library is a collection of functions.  However, how does a program actually “access” these functions under the covers?  Essentially, there are 3 different ways that a function can be made available for the program to ...

Workflow of the IDE QA team

December 3, 2007 Dec 3, 2007 12/3/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello everyone, I am Anca Miclea. I work as a SDET (QA) in the VC IDE team. This is my first post on VC blog and I would like to share with you how we test the IDE for VC++. Yes, we do test the IDE and this is not an easy job ;) For each new feature that we add to the product, we need to write a Test Plan (TP). Each TP is ...