June, 2012

Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. Today, we are announcing a “bug-fix” refresh...

After Pat's post last week about MFC bugs fixed in Visual Studio 2012 (aka VC11), I thought that a similar list for the STL would be interesting: ID Title 492128 std::locale constructor modifies global locale via "setlocale...

We recently announced the Visual Studio 2012 product lineup and platform support , and as a part of this announcement we mentioned that we were evaluating options for enabling C++ developers to build applications in Visual Studio 2012 that run on Windows...

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner , a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently shared some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library in this blog post . Several people responded to that post asking for a list of bugs that have...

In case some of you missed it, Soma recently announced Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop development . This express edition will include the latest VC++ compiler and libraries, which is great for students, new developers and open source application...

The C++ organization is growing and hiring across all feature areas (C++ 11, compiler front-end, compiler back-end, C++ AMP, PPL, libraries & runtime, IDE, Casablanca). We are looking for passionate program managers, developers and testers to bang...