C++ Team Blog

Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2 Now Available!

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07

Visual CPP Team

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (codename "Orcas") Beta 2 is now available for download.  We encourage you to download and try this early release. As the goal of this preview is to gather feedback from the developer community, please use Microsoft Connect to report any issues, or to suggest improvements.  You can use the VC++ Orcas ...

Class Designer Needs Your Feedback!

July 23, 2007 Jul 23, 2007 07/23/07

Visual CPP Team

Dear all, Class Designer is a tool in Visual Studio which enables visualization of class structures, class building and refactoring. It uses a diagramming notation that is loosely based on the UML Class Diagram standard, but presents specific language terminology. Class Designer was first introduced in Visual Studio 2005, with support for...

Visual C++ has left the building (well a couple of us will)

July 12, 2007 Jul 12, 2007 07/12/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello   Getting out of the office and meeting customers in their own surroundings is something we are always extremely eager to do. Along these lines, Jonathan Caves, Boris Jabes and myself will be heading to Israel at the end of the month for a couple of events being organized by Yosi and other team members in the local subsidiary. Here...

Testing the IntelliSense engine

July 5, 2007 Jul 5, 2007 07/5/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, I am James Wang, an SDET on the VC++ Compiler Front End team. Currently, I am working on designing the test architecture for the new IntelliSense engine. I am responsible to design tests that make sure the IntelliSense engine gives correct answer for quick info, member list, parameter help, and etc. Currently we have a test suite that ...

Why your application fails to load after building with a new version of VS?

July 2, 2007 Jul 2, 2007 07/2/07

Visual CPP Team

In this blog post I would like to outline how the build decides the CRT dependencies and what that means to the user. This basic trouble shooting guide should come in handy for diagnosing dependency errors. Please note that Nikola's blog is an awesome source for additional help (http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/). ** Where does an ...

Fixing "Unsatisfied forward declaration" error from MIDL

June 27, 2007 Jun 27, 2007 06/27/07

Visual CPP Team

Earlier this week I was helping a customer port some code from Visual Studio 2005 to a beta build of Orcas when we noticed an interesting change of behavior in how the new version of midl.exe (from the Windows Vista SDK release) was parsing code.  In case you run into the issue, here's a brief description, along with what we did to work ...

Fuzz Testing

June 26, 2007 Jun 26, 2007 06/26/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello. My name is Pengpeng Wang, a new VC++ IDE QA member. I joined Microsoft and the VC++ IDE team just a little over four months ago. These four months have been quite an experience for me. It still seems like yesterday that I was struggling with my first .NET “hello world” assignment. My mentor, Alvin (yes the Alvin Chardon guy ...

Fixing COM Interface Redefinition Error

June 12, 2007 Jun 12, 2007 06/12/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello my name is Steven Toscano and I work on the Visual C++ IDE team.  Recently we had a customer visit that exposed a common problem people are seeing when migrating to VS2005 from older versions of VS. You will encounter this problem if you have defined an interface with the same name as one of the interfaces introduced in the ...

Testing VCRedist

June 11, 2007 Jun 11, 2007 06/11/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi everyone,My name is Rob Huyett, and I’m an SDET on the Visual C++ Libraries team.  I’ve been here at Microsoft for just a little over a year.  One of my recurring duties here is to test VCRedist in its various forms.VCRedist (just in case you aren’t already familiar with the term) refers to the process of ...

Update on the C++-0x Language Standard

June 4, 2007 Jun 4, 2007 06/4/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello: the standards body that controls the C++ language (SC22/WG21) is in the process of revising the C++ language – this new revision of the C++ language, which is currently known as C++-0x, should be finished and approved by the end of the decade. As part of this process at the recent meeting of this committee (near Oxford, England) ...