{"id":5783,"date":"2007-04-10T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2007\/04\/10\/visual-c-orcas-feature-specifications-online\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:54:31","slug":"visual-c-orcas-feature-specifications-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-c-orcas-feature-specifications-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual C++ Orcas Feature Specifications online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming &#8220;Visual Studio Orcas&#8221; release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door &ndash; either via a Community Technology Preview (CTP) or, in the future, as part of an Orcas Beta. The March CTP was a big milestone for Visual C++ &#8211; almost all our Orcas features are now available via this CTP. So now it is your chance to look over our specifications (and, via our CTP, their implementation) and see what we will be delivering. Please go the &lsquo;<\/font><a title=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/aa948851.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/aa948851.aspx\"><span>Feature Specifications for Visual Studio and .NET Framework &#8220;Orcas&#8221; webpage<\/span><\/a><font color=\"#000000\">&rsquo; and scrolled down to the Visual C++ section to see just what we have been up to (or look at the other sections to see what everyone else has been doing too!)<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">Online, you can now get specifications for:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/friend-templates.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/friend-templates.xps\">Friend Templates<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/stlclr.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/stlclr.xps\">STLCLR<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/dotnet-framework-multitargeting-vcpp.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/dotnet-framework-multitargeting-vcpp.xps\">.NET Framework Multitargeting in Visual C++<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/versioning-vcpp-libs.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/versioning-vcpp-libs.xps\">Versioning of Visual C++ Libraries<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/asmmeta-in-ide-builds.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/asmmeta-in-ide-builds.xps\">Asmmeta.exe<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/dialog-templates-follow-vista-ui-guidelines.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/dialog-templates-follow-vista-ui-guidelines.xps\">Dialog Templates<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>Enabling \/MP<\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/file-dialogs.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/file-dialogs.xps\">File Dialogs<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/marshaling-library.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/marshaling-library.xps\">Marshaling Library<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/mfc-support-for-common-controls.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/mfc-support-for-common-controls.xps\">MFC Support for Common Controls<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/scope-reduction-in-vc-libs.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/scope-reduction-in-vc-libs.xps\">Scope Reduction in VC Libraries<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/uac-for-vc.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/uac-for-vc.xps\"><span>UAC for VC<\/span><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/vista-common-controls.xps\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/9\/c\/59cd0dc5-4691-4c3e-840c-66d865f27692\/vista-common-controls.xps\">Vista Common Controls<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">You will need an XPS viewer to read these files, downloadable at: <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/xps\/viewxps.mspx\" target=\"_new\"><font color=\"#800080\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/xps\/viewxps.mspx<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span lang=\"EN\"><\/span><\/font><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">There are also some channel 9 videos on some of these new features (and other aspects of the work we are currently doing):<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=281987\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=281987\"><span>Steve Teixeira and Bill Dunlap: Visual C++ Today and Tomorrow<\/span><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=293987\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=293987\"><span>Sarita Bafna: VC++ &#8220;Orcas&#8221; &#8211; Marshaling Library and MFC support for Common Controls<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=284140\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=284140\"><span>Nikola Dudar: STLCLR &#8211; STL Development in the Managed World<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=285284\" href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Showpost.aspx?postid=285284\"><span>Marina Polishchuk: VC++ QA &#8211; The best job in the biz<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">There are two more videos in the pipeline too. And you can also find out more about our Orcas features via team member posts on this blog, for example:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/21\/mfc-updates-for-vista-common-controls.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/21\/mfc-updates-for-vista-common-controls.aspx\"><span>MFC Updates for Vista Common Controls<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"> \n<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/12\/multi-processor-builds-in-orcas.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/12\/multi-processor-builds-in-orcas.aspx\"><span>Multi-processor builds in Orcas<\/span><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/02\/managed-incremental-build.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2007\/03\/02\/managed-incremental-build.aspx\"><span>Managed Incremental Build<\/span><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">Let us know what you think!<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Thanks,<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><font color=\"#000000\">Damien Watkins<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming &#8220;Visual Studio Orcas&#8221; release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door &ndash; either via a Community Technology Preview (CTP) or, in the future, as part of an Orcas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming &#8220;Visual Studio Orcas&#8221; release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door &ndash; either via a Community Technology Preview (CTP) or, in the future, as part of an Orcas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}