Hi I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  I’m pleased to give you a sneak peek at a major MFC update we’ve been working on.  Since we’re adding a number of cool new user interface components to...

Hello again. My name is Ale Contenti, and I’m the Dev Lead for the VC++ Libraries. I’m writing this blog entry from my hotel room in Barcelona. Steve Teixeira and I are here for TechEd Developers Europe. Let me tell you that the atmosphere here is just...

In this video Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team, talks about the functionality of the new MFC update. This significantly enhanced version of MFC will enable developers to create applications with the “look and feel” of Microsoft...

As an update to Visual Studio 2008, we’re pleased to announce a major new release of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Using these components, developers will be able to create applications with the “look & feel” of Microsoft’s most popular...

Hello! My name is Arjun Bijanki, and I’m the test lead for the Visual C++ compiler. I’m also Microsoft’s representative on the ISO C standard committee . I recently returned from one of the committee’s semiannual meetings (this one was in Kona, Hawaii...

Hi again. My name is Ale Contenti and I’m the dev lead of the VC++ Libraries team. You might have see me previously in my channel9 interviews. I’m now in Italy for a short vacation and I’ll be in Barcelona for TechEd starting from Nov 5. I’m really excited...

Hello. I’m Ayman Shoukry, Lead Program Manager on the libraries team. From October 8 th -12 th , Ulzii Luvsanbat & I took part in various customer interactions in Seoul, Korea. The main target of this visit was to update the Korean developers about...

Hello It is time for our next field trip - to meet customers face-to-face, to talk about "Visual Studio 2008 and Beyond" and get feedback on our plans going forward. This time Steve Teixeira and Ale Contenti will be visiting Germany right after TechEd...

Alvin Chardon, VC++ IDE QA member here. In thinking about ways of introducing the Visual C++ culture to our customers, I’ve decided to share a story. Around 6 months ago, the Visual C++ IDE QA Team hired its newest SDET. I was excited to hear my lead...

Hello. This is Dylan Birtolo, a UE writer for Visual C++. This is my first vcblog entry, but hopefully I will be more of a regular contributor. One of my most recent tasks was to incorporate the documentation for all of the new intrinsic functions that...

Hello The Visual Studio Documentation Team is running a survey on VS documentation content. We know that many of you have strong feelings and innovative ideas about what we need to do to move the documentation and the documentation system forward....

Hello again, this is Ben Anderson, SDET on the Visual C++ libraries team. One of the most common questions we get from customers on the forums and elsewhere is “My app needs the Visual C++ Libraries (CRT, ATL, MFC, OpenMP or some combination thereof...

As part of the Visual C++ effort of introducing our new strategy to the C++ developers, Ulzii Luvsanbat and myself (Ayman Shoukry) are currently in Korea talking to the Korean developers about our strategy and the new features in Visual C++ 2008. The...

Soma just blogged about some of the performance improvements we're making in Visual C++ 2008 . We'll post some details on the Visual C++ team blog when we get a chance, but for now you might want to head over to Soma's blog and check out what we've been...

During Ale Contenti's first Channel 9 video ( VC++ Safe Libraries and More ) he was asked how the Safe CRT worked with exceptions. This was a great question, but too much to handle at the time. Ale suggested the topic was worth a whole other video...and...

Hi, my name is Pat Brenner and I’m a software design engineer on the Visual C++ libraries team. I’d like to spend some time talking about our process for preventing regressions in our libraries code. After I joined the libraries team about a year...

Hello everyone, this is Smile Wei , an SDET (QA) in the VC Compiler team. This is not only my first blog on vcblog, but also my first ever blog. As you might have guessed, I’m a new face around here, joining Microsoft only 3 ½ months ago. Here I’d...

Hello. This is Pengpeng again. I wrote a blog not long ago talking about security testing for the Visual C++ IDE as a parser. The IDE is definitely a lot more than just a parser. Among other things, it provides an integrated software development experience...

Hello. I’m Rob Huyett, an SDET on the VC Libraries team. My topic for today isn’t really anything about new technology, or the wonders of Orcas, or anything like that. It’s really just to give you all a little view of how things work around here. I’m...

Hi: Jonathan Caves here. Recently I received some queries from users wanting to know what version of the Visual C++ compiler I use in my daily work. Well...that’s not really a simple question as I tend to use several different versions of the compiler...

Hi, my name is Vytautas Leonavičius, and I'm recent addition to VC++ IDE dev team. My focus areas are VC Wizards and VC++ Code Model (CM). Today, I’d like to talk about future of the CM. In a sentence (actually, two sentences J ), the VC++ CM is a...

Hello, world! Today, I (Stephan T. Lavavej, library dev) would like to present one question and one Orcas bugfix. First, the question: What is the future of C++? Or, phrased crudely, does C++ have a future? Will it grow and evolve, with programmers...

Earlier this week Soma, Vice President for the Microsoft Developer Division, blogged about the future of Visual C++. Please check out what he has to say and feel free to leave comments for him on our strategy. You can check out his blog at http://blogs...

Hello everyone, this is Jamie Eckman. The last time I posted I was an SDET (tester) on the Libraries team. I’ve since moved to the Compiler team, still as an SDET. One thing we see a lot of on both teams is compiler diagnostics: warnings and errors. ...

A number of “How Do I” videos for native development are now available on MSDN. These videos are designed to help developers new to Visual C++ 2005 become more productive using the environment. You can check out this training at http://msdn2.microsoft...