Visual C++ Team Blog : Announcement

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Beta now available

vcblog — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:05:00 GMT

We are very excited to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available for download. We encourage you to go ahead and try out this release. Please remember that this is a beta so some caution is advised. The goal of this beta is to gather feedback from the community. Please use the connect site to report any issues or improvements.

The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has been rolled into this Service Pack Beta release. In addition, there are also a number of bug fixes from Visual Studio 2008 RTM that are included in this update. Some of the improvements are:

o Connect bug: Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM or vc/bin/ml.exe) has been included in Visual C++ Express

o Connect bug: Silent bad codegen in _mm_load_ss() and _mm_load_sd() intrinsics is fixed

o Connect bug: Fixed the bug where the linker would report the message "Fatal Error - LNK 1000: Internal error during Image::BuildImage"

o For the feature pack, broken strings in class and file views are fixed

Please see the Visual Studio readme and the Express readme for more details.

We look forward to your feedback!

Thanks,

Vikas Bhatia

Visual C++ Development Team

Visual C++ has left the building (again) - destination Germany (after TechEd Developer Europe.)

vcblog — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:57:00 GMT

Hello

It is time for our next field trip - to meet customers face-to-face, to talk about "Visual Studio 2008 and Beyond" and get feedback on our plans going forward. This time Steve Teixeira and Ale Contenti will be visiting Germany right after TechEd Developers Europe. The event will be held on 15th November at:

Hilton Munich Park Hotel
Am Tucherpark 7
80538 Munich
Germany

You can find more details on Dariusz's blog (our MS host in Germany). Unfortunately the event has a very limited seating capacity so please sign up early.

Thanks
Damien

Visual Studio Content Survey

vcblog — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:17:00 GMT

Hello

The Visual Studio Documentation Team is running a survey on VS documentation content. We know that many of you have strong feelings and innovative ideas about what we need to do to move the documentation and the documentation system forward. Please feel free to take the survey and let them know how they can best serve you: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102169

You can find more information on the survey at Kathleen's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2007/10/11/wanted-feedback-on-visual-studio-content.aspx

Thanks Damien

Hello from Korea

vcblog — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:14:00 GMT

As part of the Visual C++ effort of introducing our new strategy to the C++ developers, Ulzii Luvsanbat and myself (Ayman Shoukry) are currently in Korea talking to the Korean developers about our strategy and the new features in Visual C++ 2008. The Microsoft Korean subsidiary did an excellent job organizing the events and customer meetings. More information on the events could be found at http://www.microsoft.com/korea/msdn/events/msdn071012/. We have met so far with a large number of companies across different disciplines and all seemed enthusiastic about the new direction. The majority of the customers were really happy that we are bringing back the class designer which is something that recent builds of VC++ missed. In addition, the Intellisense fixes we are doing in VC2008 were very well received. Another highlight of the meetings was our renewed investment in native libraries like MFC. Customers were really happy to see such additions.

We received lots of good feedback and suggestions especially regarding refactoring, supporting more development techniques (pair/parallel programming), concurrency, simplifying the MFC framework, developing industry specific libraries, and many more. Tonight we will be meeting with the VC++ MVPs in Korea in addition to a developer community event that is held at the MS subsidiary in Korea. We are looking forward to more of the great feedback. We will make sure to share with you all more of the details once we are back in Redmond.

Thanks,

Ayman Shoukry & Ulzii Luvsanbat

Soma Blog: Performance Improvements in Visual C++ 2008

vcblog — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:39:00 GMT

Soma just blogged about some of the performance improvements we're making in Visual C++ 2008. We'll post some details on the Visual C++ team blog when we get a chance, but for now you might want to head over to Soma's blog and check out what we've been working on. As always, feel free to comment on that post. We do read them...and Soma does as well.

Thanks,

The Visual C++ Development Team

Announcing the Visual C++ Team Blog

vcblog — Sat, 27 May 2006 00:07:00 GMT

Welcome to the Visual C++ team blog! As you can tell by the name, this blog will provide commentary from members of the Visual C++ development, test and program management teams. Our goals are to keep you posted on product planning, feature development and other interesting news from the world of Visual C++. We’ll do this by introducing you to set of individuals responsible for designing and building the product so they can share their unique viewpoints.

The posting schedule should be pretty regular. We’ll probably start out a bit slow, but the frequency is expected to increase as we move forward.

We look forward to your feedback.

Thanks,
The Visual C++ Team