June, 2012

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...