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Unit-Testing Native C++ with Visual Studio

December 21, 2010 Dec 21, 2010 12/21/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi there! I’m John Socha-Leialoha and I’m a big fan of TDD. When I asked around about writing C++ tests, I was told there isn’t any support for C++ unit tests in Visual C++. Not true. Check this blog post where I tell you what’s required in order to write unit test for native C++ code using ...

Staying Current with Visual C++ 2010

December 20, 2010 Dec 20, 2010 12/20/10
Visual CPP Team
(image) A few weeks ago, the 2010 Edition of TechEd Europe took place in Berlin, Germany. C++ MVP Kate Gregory (picture) delivered a session where she shows through demos the latest achievements in the C++arena, especially regarding the upcoming C++0x version of language (scheduled by 2011), its libraries, concurrency and related IDE ...

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...

VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack

June 18, 2010 Jun 18, 2010 06/18/10
Visual CPP Team
Recently we announced the availability of Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack for MSDN subscribers which complements the Architecture tools in VS2010. There is great C/C++ code visualization support in there. Read a blog post by Somasegar here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2010/06/17/modeling-websites-and-native-code.aspx ...

Visual Studio 2010 is Now Available

April 13, 2010 Apr 13, 2010 04/13/10
Visual CPP Team
I am very happy to announce that Visual Studio 2010 is now officially available! The formal announcement can be found on Soma’s blog and you can download VS 2010 from here. Visual Studio 2010 is a great release for C++ developers. Top reasons you should look at VS2010: 1.       Performance and productivity...

Visual C++ is coming to a city near you!

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10
Visual CPP Team
With the Visual Studio 2010 launch around the corner, members of the Visual C++ team will be traveling around the world to meet with you and showcase the many new features Visual Studio 2010 has to offer for C++ developers. If we are coming to a stop near you, feel free to drop us an email and let us know. We will be delighted to meet ...

C++ Build Parallelization Post On Visual Studio blog

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10
Visual CPP Team
Visual Studio 2010 has some enhancements that provide an easy way to get faster builds on a multiprocessor computer through parallelism. Dan Moseley a Lead Developer on MSBuild has written a blog on the C++ Build Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010.   Thank you,   Marian Luparu and Kelly Evans Visual C++ Team...

VS 2010 and Source Control Providers

March 16, 2010 Mar 16, 2010 03/16/10
Visual CPP Team
Hi, I recently explained the reasons behind the project settings changes we made for VS 2010. Let me describe to you today, how some of these changes may impact source control providers. The new .vcxproj extension and SCC We changed the C++ project file format in VS2010, migrating to the new MSBuild syntax, and we changed the project file ...