Hello, world! Today, I (Stephan T. Lavavej, library dev) would like to present one question and one Orcas bugfix. First, the question: What is the future of C++? Or, phrased crudely, does C++ have a future? Will it grow and evolve, with programmers using it in new application domains and finding ways to use it more effecti...
Earlier this week Soma, Vice President for the Microsoft Developer Division, blogged about the future of Visual C++. Please check out what he has to say and feel free to leave comments for him on our strategy. You can check out his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/08/08/visual-c-futures.aspx. The Visual C++...
Hello everyone, this is Jamie Eckman. The last time I posted I was an SDET (tester) on the Libraries team. I’ve since moved to the Compiler team, still as an SDET. One thing we see a lot of on both teams is compiler diagnostics: warnings and errors.One of our Libraries developers, Stephan T. Lavavej, wrote this last year on ...
A number of “How Do I” videos for native development are now available on MSDN. These videos are designed to help developers new to Visual C++ 2005 become more productive using the environment. You can check out this training at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb496952.aspx The Visual C++ Development Team
Recently the VC++ team released ATL Server as a shared source library on Codeplex.com to allow its user community to enhance the library in different directions and at a faster pace than we are able to support. Since then we have received some questions about how this impacts the support policy for ATL Server. The impact of releasing ATL Serv...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (codename "Orcas") Beta 2 is now available for download. We encourage you to download and try this early release. As the goal of this preview is to gather feedback from the developer community, please use Microsoft Connect to report any issues, or to suggest improvements. You can use the VC++ Orcas Forums to...
Dear all, Class Designer is a tool in Visual Studio which enables visualization of class structures, class building and refactoring. It uses a diagramming notation that is loosely based on the UML Class Diagram standard, but presents specific language terminology. Class Designer was first introduced in Visual Studio 2005, with support for the ...
Hello Getting out of the office and meeting customers in their own surroundings is something we are always extremely eager to do. Along these lines, Jonathan Caves, Boris Jabes and myself will be heading to Israel at the end of the month for a couple of events being organized by Yosi and other team members in the local subsidiary. Here is a...
Hi, I am James Wang, an SDET on the VC++ Compiler Front End team. Currently, I am working on designing the test architecture for the new IntelliSense engine. I am responsible to design tests that make sure the IntelliSense engine gives correct answer for quick info, member list, parameter help, and etc. Currently we have a test suite that directs ...
In this blog post I would like to outline how the build decides the CRT dependencies and what that means to the user. This basic trouble shooting guide should come in handy for diagnosing dependency errors. Please note that Nikola's blog is an awesome source for additional help (http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/). ** Where does an application get...
