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I knew we were working during Whidbey to get the PE/COFF spec updated (the previously available version dated back to, I think, 1998 or so). I noticed that it's now available on MSDN. Not in the place I would have expected, though. In the past it was...

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2006/10/24/conformance-testing-and-breaking-changes.aspx Andy works on the Visual C++ compiler test team.

Here's a series of videocasts (is that a word) that make up Jim McCarthy's classic talk on 23.5 rules of software development. This was back in the mid-90's and it's amazing how much of what is said sounds like contemporary best practices. I actually...

I haven't watched it yet but our VP has a video up on Channel9. I'll be checking it out tonight.

Wow. This event will probably be over by the time you read this but I just heard that Kevin Frei is speaking at tonight's Northwest C++ Users Group meeting . The topic will be the cost of exception handling. Kevin is eminently qualified to speak on...

Another great post in Kenny Kerr's series, Vista for Deveolopers: Getting Started With Server Core showed up last Friday.

Steve Teixeira (Current Group Program Manager for VC++) has a nice series of posts ( here , here , and here ) on VC++ Strategy. He is asking for and responding to feedback so if you'd like your voice to be heard as VC++ refines its strategy for the future...