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Getting Ready to Go on Tour

Well a few years ago saying this would mean something much different - I was in a band.  That would have certainly been fun, but this is going to be pretty cool, too.  The VC++ Program Management team has been out touring the United States and South America and soon we'll be treading around Europe.  We are talking to our field offices, MVPs, RDs, and customers and making sure that the word about the 2005 Visual C++ is getting out.  We are helping some customers begin to port their applications.  I'll be helping out in parts of the Europe segment, and I'm excited. I'm not just excited because I love to travel, but I'm excited to be face to face with some of our customers again.  This will be great!  I think in my next series of posts I will share with you the content that we are covering on the tour - what's new, tips for migration, security roadmap, windows apps roadmap, making your app better, etc.

 

Published Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:16 AM by AprilR
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 2:41 AM by diegov

# re: C++ Students and Hobbyists, Lend Me Your Opinions!

(Note: It wasn't possible to add a comment to your old post, so here it is)

I am a pro developer, but I don't use C++ as often as I wish during the day. So, I recently found that I could play with the language by getting involved in some open source projects. I found an interesting group that produces a free program for Windows.

While getting acquainted with this area of the “ecosystem”, I learned how much the community appreciates your recent release of the C++ Toolkit and the upcoming Express version.

Free or inexpensive software is necessarily built with free or inexpensive tools. In this case, using a commercial compiler had been limiting the reach of the project among developers. However, there is a big challenge: Big chunks of Visual C++ the product relies on, namely MFC and ATL, are absent from the “free” versions.

I can see why Microsoft would consider those libraries only belong to the professional version of Visual C++. But reality is that if MFC and ATL are not available, some existing projects like the one I have mentioned have few chances but to look somewhere else for alternatives. New free software projects have scarce motivation to target Microsoft tools and platforms.

I have also seen a huge number of compiling errors while porting from the Visual C++ 2003 to Visual C++ 2005 Beta 2. It seems that better ISO conformance, while a great feature, makes lots of errors surface. Perhaps you could add better aid tools for this task, even if it out of cycle.

Thanks. Diego.

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