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Improving C++ Intellisense Performance with PCH

February 19, 2010 Feb 19, 2010 02/19/10
Visual CPP Team
Thank you to everyone who has submitted feedback on the Visual Studio Release Candidate. We have received feedback that C++ Intellisense performance is slower. One way to improve this is to enable Pre-Compiled Headers usage for Intellisense parser. Andy Rich has written a detailed post on intellisense PCH usage that gives some additional ...

Project settings changes with VS2010

February 16, 2010 Feb 16, 2010 02/16/10
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Andreea Isac, a developer on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. I would like to present you a summary of all project settings that are stored in a different manner or place with Visual Studio 2010, compared with previous VS releases.   MSBuild syntax If you explore your project files on disk, you will notice that our default ...

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Is Now Available For Download

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Visual CPP Team
We are very excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2010’s Release Candidate. The official announcement can be found on Soma’s blog. You can download the RC from this location and it includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment. This release incorporates many Customer Connect bug...

Windows7 and Visual C++ Developer Resources

February 9, 2010 Feb 9, 2010 02/9/10
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Sridhar Madhugiri a Developer on the WinC++ team. I have worked in different areas of Visual C++ including Libraries, Code Gen and most recently on the IDE. In this blog entry, I will highlight development resources for new features in Windows 7. Integrating these features in your application can light up your application when run on...

ATL support for Transaction File System

February 2, 2010 Feb 2, 2010 02/2/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, My name is Weidong Huang, and I am an SDET on the Visual C++ team. Today, I would like to talk a little about ATL support for Transaction File System in Visual Studio 2010. What is Transactional File System? Transactional File System is a new technology first introduced in Windows Vista. It enables you to roll back ...

Precompiled Header Files in Visual Studio 2010

January 26, 2010 Jan 26, 2010 01/26/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, this is Andy Rich from the Visual C++ front-end team. Today, I’ll be discussing the use of precompiled header files (aka PCH files) in our new intellisense architecture. Back in May, Boris briefly mentioned an intellisense optimization based on precompiled header technology. This post will elaborate on that comment by providing a ...

How to read/write the new Visual C++ project properties

January 26, 2010 Jan 26, 2010 01/26/10
Visual CPP Team
Visual C++ 2010 introduces several new project properties and item metadata that are not accessible via the traditional VC interfaces.  Andrew Arnott discusses the new way to read and write project properties in Visual C++ 2010 using the IVCRulePropertyStorage interface here...

Dialog Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

January 19, 2010 Jan 19, 2010 01/19/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Daofa Li, and I am on the Visual C++ QA team. In this post I will be sharing with you the improvements in Dialog Editor for Visual Studio 2010. In Visual Studio 2010, we have improved Dialog Editor in the following features: ·         Add mockup image support to help layout controls ...

VCBuild vs. C++ MSBuild on the Command Line

January 11, 2010 Jan 11, 2010 01/11/10
Visual CPP Team
In Visual Studio 2010, the command line tool vcbuild.exe will be replaced by msbuild.exe. The executable change does mean switches will change, too.  To help make the migration easier, I have created this table as a quick guide to the new switches and highlight some differences between the tools.  The table below isn’t a ...

DIA based Stack Walking

January 5, 2010 Jan 5, 2010 01/5/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I am Manish Vasani, an SDET on the VC++ compiler backend team. In this series of posts, I will talk about call stacks and how to use the DIA SDK for implementing a stack walking client that builds a call stack. If you are interested in knowing how debuggers build the call stack or want to write an application that dumps the call stack ...