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Making an Exception

December 29, 2010 Dec 29, 2010 12/29/10
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) An interesting debate about C++ exceptions took place a few weeks ago in the C++ MVPs discussion list. The trigger was something as innocent and specific as “would you guys just throw std::runtime_exception with some error message string or you define a new exception hierarchy? What’s your opinion on AtlThrow/AtlThrowLastWin32?” ...

VS2010 SP1 Beta: What’s in It for C++ Developers

December 9, 2010 Dec 9, 2010 12/9/10
Visual CPP Team
(image)  As announced two  days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander, the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details...

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 ...

MFC applications now default to being DPI-aware

March 11, 2010 Mar 11, 2010 03/11/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team, mainly responsible for MFC.  I wanted to make you aware of a subtle but meaningful change that we have made regarding MFC applications in Visual Studio 2010: all MFC applications are now marked as ‘DPI aware’ by default.  This means that your application is ...

Dialog Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

January 19, 2010 Jan 19, 2010 01/19/10
Visual CPP Team
Hello, my name is Daofa Li, and I am on the Visual C++ QA team. In this post I will be sharing with you the improvements in Dialog Editor for Visual Studio 2010. In Visual Studio 2010, we have improved Dialog Editor in the following features: ·         Add mockup image support to help layout controls ...

TechEd Europe Demo Session – Face-Lifting MFC Applications on Windows 7

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
Visual CPP Team
Hello, My name is Damien Watkins, and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today, I thought I would post the “overview script” for my TechEd Europe session – so those who could not attend can try it out for themselves at home. My talk was about the new MFC features we have added in Visual Studio 2010. Just before we get started...

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 ...

MFC Updates for Vista Common Controls

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