Kang Su's Blog : phoenix

From Phoenix to Media Center...

kanggatl — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:49:00 GMT

After nearly six years working on Visual C++ and Phoenix, I will be taking on a new job at Microsoft on the eHome team. I'm going to be working on the Media Center TV product to help bring the future of TV to you.

It's been a pleasure talking with developers here, on MSDN forums, at conferences, and via email. But my departure doesn't mean that you won't hear from me -- some of you also must watch TV, so I hope to continue having conversations with some of you over there. It may not be in this particular blog, but I don't think it will be hard to find me...

Lastly, I hope you're enjoying Visual Studio 2008. It's a great release. And this division will continue to delight you in future releases -- even if I'm not actively working on them :-)

What Do You Want More Information About (with respect to Phoenix)?

kanggatl — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:53:00 GMT

As you can probably imagine, we are still hard at work on Phoenix (yes, a new version of the SDK is coming, although I don't have a date yet). One of the things that I'm very interested in is what would YOU like to see in the samples and documentation sections. We want to make sure that we give you the best bang for the buck.

So please, leave a comment (or email) letting me know what code samples and/or documentation you'd like to see. We'll do our best to make it happen either for this upcoming SDK or some future version of the SDK -- or maybe even this blog.

Finding the Base Class of a Function with Phoenix

kanggatl — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:20:00 GMT

This came up on an internal alias today, so I thought I would post the solution.

The issue is when there is some code like the following:

class BaseClass

{

}

class InheritedClass : BaseClass

{

void SomeFunction() { }

}

And you have a pointer to the SomeFunction function unit, how do you find out the associated base class of that function (in this case it is BaseClass).

The answer is:

functionSymbol.EnclosingAggregateType.PrimaryBaseAggregateType