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In a response to my Channel9 video blog post, reader zakimira laments the potential efficiency problems with putting a .NET GUI on top of a native C++ application: steve, doesnt that add to performance degradation? MFC and Win32 UI stuff is faster and Read More...

I've really got this passenger bill of rights thing stuck in my craw. As someone who travels frequently (and often with my children), I find it unforgivable that an airline would leave people locked in a giant aluminum tube for 8 or 10 hours . Honestly, Read More...

Bill Dunlap and I had the opportunity to sit down with Charles Torre on Channel9 to talk Visual C++ product strategy . We talk about the three-pronged product strategy for the product, which is: Support and add value to the native Windows API Provide Read More...

Reader zakimirza asks: Just needed to ask a simple thing. Why is there such a huge Intellisense support for C# in VS 2005 and not for C++ in the same IDE. intellisense is just a helper tool that i guess is a part of VS 2005 and should be applicable to Read More...

As the intervals between my blog entries grow longer, I'm trying to decide whether the issue is all of the other time pressures I have or simply that I'm not making blogging the priority that it needs to be. I'm still not sure, but either way the first Read More...