Hello, I am Mohammad Usman, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently joined the team. In VS 2008 SP1, we invested heavily in our Standard Template Library (STL) implementation by adding TR1 extensions such as shared_ptr...

Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the Visual C++ team . D uring the development of Visual Studio 2010 he has been feverously working on converting our build system to target MS Build as the build infrastructure for Visual C++ 2010 Solutions/Projects....

David LeBlanc and Michael Howard literally wrote the book on “ Writing Secure Code ”. David has also developed the SafeInt class, a template class that performs “checked” operations on integer types (with a name like SafeInt what else would you expect...

Hello everyone, My name is Raman Sharma and I am a PM on the VC++ IDE team. I want to talk about a new feature called Call Hierarchy in Visual Studio 10. As the name suggests, it is used for navigating all functions called from within a particular...

The VS Project team, part of Platform team, own the C# and VB project systems brought their expertise to the table along with the VC++ team to give you an extensible and much more powerful project system. The team maintains a blog at http://blogs.msdn...

Hi, My name is Bogdan Mihalcea and I’m a developer on the C++ Project & Build team. In the last 2 years I worked on a new C++ project system build on top MSBuild. I’m writing this blog to share some excellent news related to improvements...

Thanks to a recent VC Blog post by Hongwei Qi , you already know that we have worked on our /GS switch for VS2010. You can already try it out with the VS2010 Beta 1 too. Recently Charles Torre from Channel 9 stopped by and spoke with one of our Channel...

Hello, I’m Mitchell Slep, a developer on the Visual C++ compiler team. I’m very excited to tell you about a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 - C++ IntelliSense can now display compiler-quality syntax and semantic errors as you browse and edit your code...