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Roaming Settings: Give Us Your Feedback!

January 2, 2013 Jan 2, 2013 01/2/13
Eric Battalio
Let's kick off 2013 with a survey JWe have been researching roaming Visual Studio settings and have a few questions that will help gain insights into what the best experience would be. We have created a survey (https://aka.ms/vsroaming) aimed at understanding Visual Studio settings usage patterns and gathering feedback. The survey should take ...

In the Community: Meet Kenny Kerr

December 17, 2012 Dec 17, 2012 12/17/12
Eric Battalio
Hello. Welcome to the first "in the community" posts spotlighting members of the C++ and/or developer community. Today we meet Kenny Kerr and a Microsoft MVP who graciously agreed to "go first" :)Kenny is a computer programmer with a bias toward Windows and C++. He enjoys writing and teaching developers how to get the most out of Windows with ...

Registration for C++Now 2013 Opens Today!

December 11, 2012 Dec 11, 2012 12/11/12
James McNellis
Registration for the seventh annual C++Now Conference (formerly BoostCon) opens today, and if you're looking for a great C++ conference to attend this year, you should definitely consider C++Now.  I attended last year's conference and it was terrific:  in addition to a splendid program of sessions about a wide variety of ...

Friday Miscellany #3

December 7, 2012 Dec 7, 2012 12/7/12
Eric Battalio
Active in the C++ community? Answering questions, creating demos, sharing code snippets, or hosting a local user group meeting? If you have something to share, send it to me (ebattali@microsoft.com) for potential inclusion in a future miscellany!And now on with the show: And because Murphy was an optimist, share your own laws below or on ...

Casablanca : Give us your feedback!

December 4, 2012 Dec 4, 2012 12/4/12
Sana Mithani
Casablanca: a native library to access the cloud from C++ Take a quick 10 minute break and give us your feedback on Casablanca. The Casablanca team would love to hear what you have to say! We want to know how you are using the libraries and what you like or don’t like about Casablanca. This data can help us improve Casablanca and ...

Friday Miscellany #2

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12
Eric Battalio
We recently requested feedback on native debugging (https://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience (https://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of the written feedback we have received: Look to future posts to share more about each of these surveys.Some links for your ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available!

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12
Eric Battalio
Today, Soma announced the availability of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1! You can install it either from the download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the "Additional software" section).As promised, you can now use the Visual C++ compiler and libraries to target Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. To target Windows...

Another Earful: Debugging Survey

November 20, 2012 Nov 20, 2012 11/20/12
Eric Battalio
The Visual C++ build experience survey (https://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey) has almost passed the 250 response mark on the way to 500 responses. Thank you to everyone who has already provided feedback. To those that have not yet had a chance to take the survey, please consider spending ~10 minutes sharing your thoughts with the team. Your help is ...

Give Us an Earful: Visual C++ Build Survey

November 19, 2012 Nov 19, 2012 11/19/12
Eric Battalio
Need a quick 10 minute break from developing your latest Visual C++ masterpiece? Want to give us feedback about your project build experience?Yes? Then we have a link for you: https://aka.ms/cppbuildsurveyThere are a mix of questions including an invitation for further discussion if you opt in. We look forward to your feedback and hope to ...