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Visual C++ docs: the future is… soon!

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16
EricMittelette
We on the Visual C++ documentation team are pleased to announce some changes to the API reference content in the following Visual C++ libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, AMP, and ConcRT. Since the beginning of MSDN online, the Visual C++ libraries have documented each class member, free function, macro, enum, and property on a separate web page. While ...

ATL and MFC changes and fixes in Visual Studio 2013

August 20, 2013 Aug 20, 2013 08/20/13
Pat Brenner MSFT
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team.  In this blog post I would like to share with you the changes that we’ve made in ATL and MFC for Visual Studio 2013.One of the major changes we made was to eliminate the ATL DLL altogether.  All ATL code is now static, either in the header files or...

C++ Renaissance: First Symptoms of Contagion in Traditionally Non-Native Teams

February 24, 2011 Feb 24, 2011 02/24/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
You may already know Pete Brown but if you don’t, I’ll briefly introduce him here: he’s, like me, a Community Program Manager with Microsoft but while I’m focused on C/C++ languages and the Visual C++ tool, he’s devoted to client-side development technologies (mainly WPF and Silverlight, with some Windows Phone 7 and XNA, a bit less ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 4 (Jan 22, 2010)

January 22, 2011 Jan 22, 2011 01/22/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Paperli.PaperWidget.Show({ pid: 'visualc/news', width: 200, background: '#000666' }) Greetings!! The 4th issue of The Visual C++ Weekly is out there. This issue starts with an article due to C++ MVP Marc Gregoire on an extension that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta brings to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to allow animations. ...

ActiveX Test Container Application is Still Available

March 18, 2010 Mar 18, 2010 03/18/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team.  I’ve noticed some posts on various forums lamenting the loss of the ActiveX Test Container application and I wanted to address those concerns. The ActiveX Text Container tool is still available as a sample in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.  It is ...

The ATL/MFC Trace Tool and the Tracing Mechanism

October 8, 2009 Oct 8, 2009 10/8/09
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group.  Some time back I wrote about Spy++.  Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging tool, the ATL/MFC Trace Tool, and the tracing mechanism that it interacts with in ATL and MFC. The tracing mechanism The tracing mechanism is used ...

Active Template Library (ATL) Security Updates

August 5, 2009 Aug 5, 2009 08/5/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, On Tuesday 28 July  we released guidance and updates to assist developers using our Active Template Library (ATL) to prevent creating controls or components with potential security vulnerabilities.  Vulnerabilities in libraries are a rare, but industry wide issue, that requires broad collaboration and action by the ...