{"id":3703,"date":"2010-12-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2010\/12\/09\/vs2010-sp1-beta-whats-in-it-for-c-developers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:45:24","slug":"vs2010-sp1-beta-whats-in-it-for-c-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/vs2010-sp1-beta-whats-in-it-for-c-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"VS2010 SP1 Beta: What&#8217;s in It for C++ Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.email.microsoftemail.com\/lib\/feed1d7871600d\/m\/1\/VSRibbon161x55.png\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta just shipped\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" title=\"Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta just shipped\" style=\"float: left\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffc000;color: #ffffff;font-size: large\">&nbsp;As announced two&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"> days ago by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/somasegar\/archive\/2010\/12\/07\/visual-studio-2010-momentum.aspx\">S. Somasegar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2010\/12\/07\/announcing-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1-beta.aspx\">Jason Zander<\/a>, the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=207130\">download<\/a>! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=207552\"><strong>go live<\/strong><\/a>&rdquo; license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>The link for this SP1 Beta download is<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=207130\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">With this service pack we&rsquo;re not only addressing product issues but also improving our underlying libraries and toolset. Specifically we&rsquo;re enabling the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>MFC-based GPU-accelerated graphics and animations. <\/strong>For those not familiar, <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd370990(VS.85).aspx\">Direct2D<\/a> is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. Likewise, <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd371981%28VS.85%29.aspx\">Windows Animation Manager<\/a> enables rich animation of user interface elements. <br \/>Now these two technologies are enabled in MFC. The benefit for MFC developers is that they can take advantage of those underlying technologies without breaking the MFC programming model. You&rsquo;ll find some demos in <span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">&lt;Program Files&gt;Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Samples1033VC2010SP1Samples.zip<\/span>. In the next few days we&rsquo;ll publish this new MFC APIs documentation (we&rsquo;ll update this post as well). <br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>New AMD and Intel Instruction Set Support. <\/strong>AMD and Intel are working on new microprocessors to be released next year. Both processors come with extensions to the current x86 instructions. C++ developers get enablement to these extensions as <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/26td21ds(v=VS.100).aspx\">intrinsic functions<\/a> or just <i>intrinsics<\/i>, allowing highly efficient computing without the overhead of a function call. For further references, take a look to <a href=\"http:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/avx\/\">Intel AVX<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/us\/Processor_TechDocs\/26568.pdf\">AMD Bulldozer instruction sets<\/a>. <br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Managed Incremental Build parity with Visual Studio 2008.<\/strong> Originally reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/982721\">KB982721<\/a>. <br \/><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Help Viewer. <\/strong>The new local Help Viewer is a simple client application that re-introduces key productivity features including a fully-expandable table of contents and a keyword index.&nbsp; For additional information about these improvements, check out Jeff Braaten&rsquo;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdblogfromthesun.com\/2010\/10\/the-story-of-help-in-visual-studio-2010-part-3\/\">here<\/a>. <br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Addressing Customer Issues.<\/strong> The Service Pack addresses various issues reported by our customers or the community, covering areas like the IDE itself, library implementations (like MFC, STL) or the setup process.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Your feedback on this release will help us improve the final release.&nbsp; Please report any issues you come across in the SP1 Beta to <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\"><strong>Visual Studio Connect<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; Once you&#8217;ve had a chance to use Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, please also give us your feedback by taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=207266\"><strong>Service Pack 1 Beta Survey<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; The results from this survey inform our work so we build an even better SP1 RTM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Enjoy! <br \/>The Visual C++ Team<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;As announced two&nbsp; days ago by S. 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