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During Ale Contenti's first Channel 9 video (VC++ Safe Libraries and More) he was asked how the Safe CRT worked with exceptions.  This was a great question, but too much to handle at the time.  Ale suggested the topic was worth a whole other video...and so here it is!  Ale is joined in this video by Louis Lafreniere (developer on the...

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++ compiler...

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. Objects...

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 effecti...

MFC has been updated for Visual Studio codename Orcas to handle the new common controls/messages/flags added in Windows Vista.  We have made a number of updates to MFC to wrap the new controls and messages, so when you’re using these new capabilities, MFC will make it easier to code them. Three new MFC classes have been added to wra...

Hi: my name is Jonathan Caves and I’m a developer on the Visual C++ Compiler Team. I thought I'd take a few moments to let you know about the plans our team has for the next release of Visual C++. After the last release of Visual C++ we took a long, hard look at the compiler source base and decided we needed to take the time to...

Hi! My name is Martyn Lovell, and I’m the development lead on the Visual C++ Libraries team. You might have seen me blog before, (though I never seem to manage to get regular enough). You might also have caught me recently on video on Channel 9. I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the kinds of things my team is looking at right now [...