C++ Team Blog

QA Gauntlet

September 6, 2007 Sep 6, 2007 09/6/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello.  I’m Rob Huyett, an SDET on the VC Libraries team.  My topic for today isn’t really anything about new technology, or the wonders of Orcas, or anything like that.  It’s really just to give you all a little view of how things work around here.  I’m writing today to talk about one of the tools ...

What Compiler Does the Compiler Team Use…and Decoding Version Numbers

September 4, 2007 Sep 4, 2007 09/4/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi: Jonathan Caves here.  Recently I received some queries from users wanting to know what version of the Visual C++ compiler I use in my daily work. Well...that’s not really a simple question as I tend to use several different versions of the compiler. <aside>Before I proceed a little aside on decoding the Visual C++ ...

Visual C++ Code Model

August 17, 2007 Aug 17, 2007 08/17/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Vytautas Leonavičius, and I'm recent addition to VC++ IDE dev team. My focus areas are VC Wizards and VC++ Code Model (CM). Today, I’d like to talk about future of the CM. In a sentence (actually, two sentencesJ), the VC++ CM is a collection of classes that allows a client to get source code reflected in objects. ...

The Future of the C++ Language

August 10, 2007 Aug 10, 2007 08/10/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello, world!  Today, I (Stephan T. Lavavej, library dev) would like to present one question and one Orcas bugfix.   First, the question: What is the future of C++?  Or, phrased crudely, does C++ have a future?  Will it grow and evolve, with programmers using it in new application domains and finding ways to use it more ...

Soma Blog: Visual C++ Futures

August 9, 2007 Aug 9, 2007 08/9/07

Visual CPP Team

Earlier this week Soma, Vice President for the Microsoft Developer Division, blogged about the future of Visual C++.  Please check out what he has to say and feel free to leave comments for him on our strategy.  You can check out his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/08/08/visual-c-futures.aspx. The ...

Testing Compiler Diagnostics…and a Cool IDE Tip!

August 3, 2007 Aug 3, 2007 08/3/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello everyone, this is Jamie Eckman.  The last time I posted I was an SDET (tester) on the Libraries team.  I’ve since moved to the Compiler team, still as an SDET.  One thing we see a lot of on both teams is compiler diagnostics: warnings and errors.One of our Libraries developers, Stephan T. Lavavej, wrote this last ...

&quot;How Do I&quot; Videos

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07

Visual CPP Team

A number of “How Do I” videos for native development are now available on MSDN.  These videos are designed to help developers new to Visual C++ 2005 become more productive using the environment.  You can check out this training at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb496952.aspx The Visual C++ Development ...

Support Policy for ATL Server Library

July 27, 2007 Jul 27, 2007 07/27/07

Visual CPP Team

Recently the VC++ team released ATL Server as a shared source library on Codeplex.com  to allow its user community to enhance the library in different directions and at a faster pace than we are able to support. Since then we have received some questions about how this impacts the support policy for ATL Server. The impact of releasing ATL...

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...