C++ Team Blog

Digging Into Problems

February 6, 2007 Feb 6, 2007 02/6/07

Visual CPP Team

Hello my name is Steven Toscano, I am an SDET Tech Lead on the Visual C++ team.  I am currently working in the IDE group focusing on improving our testing methodologies and expanding our library of tools.  I’ve been a member of many teams across Visual C++ during my 7 year career including front-end, back-end optimizers, ...

Using Code Coverage to Improve Orcas Quality

January 29, 2007 Jan 29, 2007 01/29/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Ann Zhou and I’m an SDET (Software Design Engineer in Test) tech lead on the Visual C++ Libraries team. Today I would like to share with you something that we have been doing to improve the quality of our testing in Orcas.After we shipped VS2005, the Developer Division and the VC++ team decided to take a look at the ...

ATL Server: Visual C++ shared source software

January 19, 2007 Jan 19, 2007 01/19/07

Visual CPP Team

Overview The Visual C++ team is very pleased to announce our plans to release the source code of ATL Server as a shared source project on CodePlex in March 2007. With this release you will now have the opportunity to add all the features and functionality you want to ATL Server and you can even share your expertise and code directly with ...

Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL

January 16, 2007 Jan 16, 2007 01/16/07

Visual CPP Team

Jensen Harris’ blog hosts an interesting article on Using RibbonX with C++ and ATL.  RibbonX is the user interface extensibility model for Office developers.  The article is written by Eric Faller who’s one of the developers behind the design and implementation of RibbonX. For more info about RibbonX, check out the ...

Spy++ Internals

January 16, 2007 Jan 16, 2007 01/16/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, my name is Pat Brenner and I’m a software design engineer on the Visual C++ libraries team.  I recently rejoined the Visual C++ team after almost 10 years in the Visual Studio environment team.  I am also the owner of Spy++.  While I did not originally write Spy++, I owned it from around 1993 until around 2003, and now...