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Channel 9 Video: Stephan T. Lavavej – Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr

October 27, 2009 Oct 27, 2009 10/27/09

Visual CPP Team

Stephan T. Lavavej is back in front of the Channel 9 cameras once again for a discussion on our recently implemented C++0x feature “nullptr”. In a previous channel 9 appearance, Stephan spoke about the C++0x language and library features we were implementing for VS2010 and the various interdependencies between various ...

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 ...

Channel 9 Video: Louis Lafreniere: Next Generation Buffer Overrun Protection – gs++

June 3, 2009 Jun 3, 2009 06/3/09

Visual CPP Team

Thanks to a recent VC Blog post by Hongwei Qi, you already know that we have worked on our /GS switch for VS2010. You can already try it out with the VS2010 Beta 1 too. Recently Charles Torre from Channel 9 stopped by and spoke with one of our Channel 9 regular speakers Louis Lafreniere about this work. Native code developers care deeply about...

Channel 9 Video: VC 10: Stephan T. Lavavej and Damien Watkins – Inside STL

May 25, 2009 May 25, 2009 05/25/09

Visual CPP Team

As Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1was being released, Charles Torre from Channel 9 came over to the Visual C++ team to talk about some of our new features. On this visit he spoke with Stephan T. Lavavej and myself about our VS2010 STL implementation. As Charles says on the Channel 9 page: “We have already heard about many of the ...

Channel 9 Video: Parallel Computing in Native Code: New Trends and Old Friends – Damien Watkins and others

January 14, 2009 Jan 14, 2009 01/14/09

Visual CPP Team

Recently our colleagues over at PCP (the Parallel Computing Platform team) have been doing a number of Channel 9 videos - on their most recent taping they asked Damien Watkins from VC++ to join them. Why? Well the focus of the video was around the journey towards getting the PCP bits shaped and shipped in VS2010. Damien has been the VC...

Channel9: Amit Mohindra – VS2010 CTP “10 is the new 6”,

November 14, 2008 Nov 14, 2008 11/14/08

Visual CPP Team

HelloAmit has just done a Channel9 video on the VS2010 CTP, around our theme of “10 is the new 6”, please stop by and have a look: https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-CPP-10-10-is-the-new-6/ ThanksDamien...

Channel 9 video: STL Iterator Debugging and Secure SCL – Stephan T. Lavavej

June 16, 2008 Jun 16, 2008 06/16/08

Visual CPP Team

HelloStephan has just completed his latest channel 9 video, this one on debugging in our implementation of the STL: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/STL-Iterator-Debugging-and-Secure-SCL/. This topic gets a little confusing as we have two technologies available here, namely Iterator Debugging and Iterator Checking – if you are ...

Channel9: The Route to C++ Code Optimization

May 20, 2008 May 20, 2008 05/20/08

Visual CPP Team

A Channel9 video just got published where Russell Hadley (Senior Developer on the VC++ Team) speaks more about the VC compiler. Check out the video at https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=405345Thanks,Visual C++ Development Team ...

Channel 9 Video: Andy Ayers – Understanding the Phoenix Compiler Framework

April 10, 2008 Apr 10, 2008 04/10/08

Visual CPP Team

To celebrate the recent release of the next interim version of the Phoenix SDK (http://connect.microsoft.com/phoenix), we asked Charles to do another of his excellent Channel 9 videos on Phoenix (and it has been a little since the last Channel 9 video on Phoenix too.) Andy Ayers, an Architect on the Phoenix project, spent an hour talking about...

Channel 9: Stephan T. Lavavej: Digging into C++ Technical Report 1 (TR1)

February 25, 2008 Feb 25, 2008 02/25/08

Visual CPP Team

Hello Recently we shipped a beta of our MFC/TR1 Feature Pack that, naturally enough, included a large update to MFC and an implementation of “TR1” (if you are unsure just what exactly TR1 is then you can read this VC Blog post.). To celebrate the TR1 availability, Charles Torre (Channel 9) visited with Stephan T. Lavavej, our ...

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