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Monday, November 23, 2009 12:40 PM

TechEd Europe Demo Session - Face-Lifting MFC Applications on Windows 7

Hello, My name is Damien Watkins, and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team. Today, I thought I would post the “overview script” for my TechEd Europe session – so those who could not attend can try it out for themselves at home. My talk was about
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:49 AM

Improvements to Find all references in Visual Studio 2010

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
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:08 PM

Visual C++ Precompiled Header Errors on Windows 7

Several customers have encountered the following error while using the Visual C++ compiler on Windows 7: fatal error C1859: 'stdafx.pch' unexpected precompiled header error, simply rerunning the compiler might fix this problem This error manifests under
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:37 PM

Steps to Open Actionable Bugs

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
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Monday, November 02, 2009 10:56 AM

Visual C++ Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010

Hello, I’m Ten Tzen, a Compiler Architect on the Visual C++ Compiler Code Generation team. Today, I’m going to introduce some noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio 2010. Faster LTCG Compilation : LTCG (Link Time Code Generation) allows the compiler
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:11 AM

Channel 9 Video: Stephan T. Lavavej - Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr

Stephan T. Lavavej is back in front of the Channel 9 cameras once again for a discussion on our recently implemented C++0x feature “nullptr”. In a previous channel 9 appearance , Stephan spoke about the C++0x language and library features we were implementing
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:32 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Is Now Available For Download

We are very pleased to announce we have released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. You can read the official Beta 2 announcement on Soma’s blog. The Visual C++ team has added a few new features and, of course, many bug fixes. The additional features include
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:03 PM

Visual C++ Code Model in Visual Studio 2010

Hello, I’m Vytautas Leonavičius, a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team. Today, I’d like to discuss how the new principles we’re applying to code browsing in Visual Studio 2010 (see here and here ) will affect VCCodeModel . General information about VCCodeModel
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:20 AM

The ATL/MFC Trace Tool and the Tracing Mechanism

Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group. Some time back I wrote about Spy++. Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging tool, the ATL/MFC Trace Tool, and the tracing mechanism that it interacts
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:23 PM

Ribbon Designer

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
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:10 PM

User Feedback

Hello! My name is Joshua Baxter, and I am a programming writer on the Microsoft team that produces Help content for Visual C++. I am writing this article to explain how Microsoft collects and handles user feedback. User feedback is an important part of
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:12 AM

Linker throughput

Hello, my name is Chandler Shen, a developer from the Visual C++ Shanghai team. We have made some changes in the upcoming Visual C++ 2010 release to improve the performance of linker. I would like to first give a brief overview of the linker and how we
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:29 AM

Compiler Warning C4789

When Visual Studio 2010 ships, it will have improvements to warning C4789; allowing it to catch more cases of buffer overrun. This blog post will cover what C4789 warns about, and how to resolve the warning. What does C4789 mean? When compiling your source
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:15 PM

Windows SDK V7.0/V7.0A Incompatibility Workaround

Hi, My name is Nada AboElseoud and I am a QA in VC++ Libraries team. I joined MS in February 2009. I would like to talk here about an incompatibility issue with WinSDK v7.0*. If you are a developer who has recently migrated to WinSDK v7.0 (standalone
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:59 AM

Tag Parsing C++

Hello, my name is Thierry Miceli and I am a developer on the Visual C++ Compiler Front End team. Although our team is mostly known for writing and maintaining the part of the C++ compiler that analyzes your source code and builds an internal representation
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