I've spent the past two days at GameFest, presenting some tips and tricks for the Visual C++ IDE and talking to game developers. The conference was based in Bellevue (so no fancy traveling this time) and, as I mentioned before, it is geared mainly towards...

Steve Teixeira pointed out a great (quick too!) talk by Kate Gregory , one of our regional directors, about why C++ matters today and continues to provide access to the whole array of Windows functionality (rumors of the death of the Win32 API are greatly...

Thanks to Don for pointing this one out, I bet Sara will blog about this in no time too... Since Visual Studio 2005 uses tabs for managing all the different files one would edit, one can naturally apply to browsing the web. Personally, I don't see this...

If you're an experienced Visual C++ 6.0 user, chances are you've become quite attached to the Source Browser tool. This tool provided rich browsing functionality for any project that generated a .bsc file. It was accessible from the Alt+F12 shortcut,...