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Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 5 (Jan 29, 2011)

This week comes with an article to help you set your application for parallelization; C++ MVP Dan Rollins researches on various ways to implement properties in C++; Issam Iqbal, C++ MVP, gives another twist to the TO CLI or NOT TO CLI debate when creating unit tests for our unmanaged code (voting for “NOT TO CLI”). There are also a...

"How Do I" Videos

A number of “How Do I” videos for native development are now available on MSDN.  These videos are designed to help developers new to Visual C++ 2005 become more productive using the environment.  You can check out this training at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb496952.aspx The Visual C++ Development ...

Visual C++ Community Content

Join our slow chat on Visual C++   During the week of June 19th, the Visual C++ team will be hosting a slow chat titled Visual C++: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow on CodeGuru (www.codeguru.com).  A slow chat takes place in a discussion forum over a period of days rather than occurring in real time as in a standard chat.  In addition, ...