If you have read Jason Zander’s post earlier today, you know that Visual Studio 2012 has been released to the web! Check out the MSDN Subscriber Download Page and the Visual Studio product website . This release has brought a huge amount of new...

A recent study showed that C++ is still among the most used languages (ahead of any other Visual Studio officially supported language like C# or Visual Basic). But despite being widely used and known by several generations of developers –thanks...

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...

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...

As announced two days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander , the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download ! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “ go live ” license which means you can start using the product for production...

Hello, this is Andy Rich from the Visual C++ front-end team. Today, I’ll be discussing the use of precompiled header files (aka PCH files) in our new intellisense architecture. Back in May, Boris briefly mentioned an intellisense optimization based...

Hello Everyone on the VC team is getting really excited about the upcoming PDC in Los Angeles. This will be our first chance to show you some of our upcoming features and a great way for us to get feedback direct from you on what we have implemented...

Hello, my name is Raman Sharma, and I am a Program Manager on the VC++ team. Through this blog post, I wish to highlight some changes we have made to an important feature in the C++ IDE, called “Find all References”. As most of you would know, this feature...

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...

To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming "Visual Studio Orcas" release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door – either via a Community...

I was reading recent discussion threads and found something interesting that someone introduced as a question, but instead of start developing the whole story from here, I’ll just challenge you with two different quiz games. Quiz 1 ...

Hi, I am Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, test lead from the Visual C++ Compiler Backend team. I joined Visual C++ team 4 years ago and helped ship VS2005 and VS2008. In this blog, I would like to introduce you to the most effective way of reporting actionable...

If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available...

Hello, I’m Pat Brenner , a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. Through this blog post I wanted to share some information about the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library , since I am the primary developer working on MFC. As you know, MFC is...

Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking with MFC will get the following error when run on...

Hi! I am Amit Mohindra, a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team . Earlier in the month my colleague Sumit Kumar had talked about some of the exciting IDE features in the next version of Visual Studio . Today I will just add to that list a few more features...

Part 1 of this series covered lambdas , auto , and static_assert . Part 2 of this series covered rvalue references , which enable move semantics and perfect forwarding . Today, I'm going to talk about decltype , which allows perfect forwarding...

Hello, my name is Samatha Mannem and I am a QA with the IDE team. The world has become sophisticated and the time has come to make every application geeky as well as fancy. That is where ‘Ribbon’ has evolved. The recent UI designs that people are attracted...

Hi. I’m Arjun Bijanki, the test lead for the compiler front-end and Intellisense engine. One afternoon a few months ago, I was sitting in my office in building 41 thinking about test passes, when an animated discussion between a couple of colleagues spilled...

Hello everyone. I’m Marian Luparu and I am a Program Manager in the Visual C++ IDE team. Last week I was in Barcelona attending TechEd EMEA 2008 where I had two talks delving into the areas where the VC++ IDE team is making major investments in the upcoming...

Hi, this is Jim Springfield, an architect on the Visual C++ team. I have blogged in the past about our IDE and Intellisense work. I am still heavily focused on that and we are working hard to deliver an improved experience, but this post is about a completely...

Hi, my name is Li Shao. I am Software Design Engineer in Test on the C++ team. As has been mentioned in many of the blogs, for example, recent blog by Felix Huang, the blog by Andreea Issac and my earlier blog , one of the major improvements in this release...

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...

Hi - Jonathan Caves again. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen some reports from users that the C++ compiler does not act the way they think it should. As it turns these reports weren’t real bugs, but the issues brought up are interesting enough to...

My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a developer at Microsoft. For the past few months I've been working on a Windows 8 app along with a small team of developers from the Visual C++ team, we call it Project Code Name Austin. Austin is a digital note-taking...