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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:37 PM

Conformance Testing and Breaking Changes

Hi, I’m Andy Rich, and I’m a Software Development Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ Compiler Front End. My testing focus during the Orcas product cycle thus far has been compiler conformance. Implementing a conformance feature usually breaks down into

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Friday, October 20, 2006 6:22 PM

CRT Initialization

Hi, I’m George Mileka and I work on the Visual C++ libraries team. My team owns the CRT, ATL, MFC and STL… One subject I have always been interested in is the startup code and initialization. The subject got even more challenging as we started supporting

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Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:21 PM

Visual C++ Orcas Forums

You can now discuss Viscual C++ Orcas releated issues on the Orcas MSDN Forums . The Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” September 2006 CTP is now available so download this release to see what features are beginning to come online. The Visual C++ team will

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Monday, October 09, 2006 6:44 PM

What goes into a Service Pack?

With the VS 2003 Service Pack 1 released and the VS 2005 Service Pack 1 release imminent, it’s a good time to talk about what Visual C ++ Service Packs contain and the rationale behind this. The primary purpose of a Service Pack is to improve the stability

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Friday, October 06, 2006 7:17 PM

Servicing: The History of Visual Studio... Today!

Hello everyone, my name is Jamie Eckman. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test (or SDET, for short) on the Visual C++ Libraries team, and have been for the last two and a half years. Usually I'm in charge of testing ATL Server and our new STL/CLR library,

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