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Channel 9: Ale Contenti and Louis Lafreniere – Understanding Exceptions and When/How to Handle Them

Visual CPP Team September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07

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 ...

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

Visual CPP Team September 4, 2007 Sep 4, 2007 09/4/07

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

Visual CPP Team August 17, 2007 Aug 17, 2007 08/17/07

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

Visual CPP Team August 10, 2007 Aug 10, 2007 08/10/07

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 ...

MFC Updates for Vista Common Controls

Visual CPP Team March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07

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 ...

Visual C++ Compiler Plans

Visual CPP Team June 29, 2006 Jun 29, 2006 06/29/06

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 ...

Hello from the trenches of Orcas

Visual CPP Team June 12, 2006 Jun 12, 2006 06/12/06

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 ...

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