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June 2012 - Developer Support

Update to Visual C++ 2012 Debugger launch extension template

June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 06/8/12
Andrew Arnott
A few days ago I posted about an updated Visual C++ 2012 debugger extensibility project template.  Since then, I realized it had a couple of issues that prevented it from working out of the box.  With those fixed, I also added a demonstration of how to read project properties that aren’t specifically dedicated to debugger ...

Enable C++ and Javascript project system tracing

June 7, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 06/7/12
Andrew Arnott
I’ve previously posted on how to enable logging in the C++ project system in Visual Studio 2010.  In Visual Studio 2012 we’ve changed the way the Common Project System (aka “CPS”) emits trace messages so below I introduce an updated xml snippet that works in Visual Studio 2012.  Since CPS is now the project system driving JavaScript ...

Visual C++ 2012 Debugger Extensibility

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12
Andrew Arnott
Back in Visual C++ 2010 we introduced debugger extensibility so that third party vendors can either add new debugger engines or new ways of launching existing debugger engines for C++ projects.  In Visual C++ 2012 this debugger extensibility has been updated.  Any previous extensions that were compiled against Visual C++ 2010 will...