A common question from programmers who have an intermediate amount of experience with using the STL is, "How do I write an STL allocator?". Writing an STL allocator is not especially difficult - only two member functions are interesting, allocate() and...

Hello, everyone. This is Pat Brenner. I’m an SDE on the Visual C++ Libraries team. We’ve just released Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and it includes about 55 fixes to the MFC library. Many of these fixes are for the new feature s that were added in the Feature...

STL enjoys speaking in the third person and also enjoys bringing you this exclusive news: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VC9 SP1) contains the TR1 and MFC library extensions that were originally released in the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Refresh...

Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download . Not only does this service pack include the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack but also addresses a range of issues found through customer...

Once you’ve built a great looking application, you’ll likely want to provide equally great looking icons and toolbar bitmaps. Unfortunately, the bitmap editing tools included in Visual Studio are far from state-of-the-art. They haven’t been updated for...