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Channel 9: George Mileka and Ben Anderson – Everything you wanted to know about VC++ deployment but were afraid to ask

January 7, 2008 Jan 7, 2008 01/7/08
Visual CPP Team
HelloCharles Torre of Channel 9 recently got together with George Mileka (Libraries Dev VC++) and Ben Anderson (Libraries QA VC++) to discuss the issues around deploying the Visual C++ libraries onto customer machines.  They discussed many important facets, such as the current set of options, when they should be used, the caveats around ...

Channel 9: Pat Brenner – Overview of new MFC update

November 9, 2007 Nov 9, 2007 11/9/07
Visual CPP Team
In this video Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team, talks about the functionality of the new MFC update.  This significantly enhanced version of MFC will enable developers to create applications with the “look and feel” of Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and Visual Studio.  Tune in to learn more ...

Channel 9: Ale Contenti and Louis Lafreniere – Understanding Exceptions and When/How to Handle Them

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07
Visual CPP Team
During Ale Contenti's first Channel 9 video (VC++ Safe Libraries and More) he was asked how the Safe CRT worked with exceptions.  This was a great question, but too much to handle at the time.  Ale suggested the topic was worth a whole other video...and so here it is!  Ale is joined in this video by Louis Lafreniere (developer ...

Channel 9: Documenting Development Technologies

May 23, 2007 May 23, 2007 05/23/07
Visual CPP Team
This channel 9 interview features our very own Gordon Hogenson, the Visual C++ Documentation Manager who has recently released his first book “C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET”. Gordon has worked as a manager, technical writer and test engineer for Visual C++, C# and other Microsoft products over the past 9 years. ...

Channel 9: VC++ Safe Libraries and More

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Visual CPP Team
Our Channel 9 season continues, this time with a video featuring Ale Contenti, Senior Development Lead on the VC++ libraries team. Much of Ale’s recent work has been on the Safe Libraries (for example, the Safe CRT). Here Ale talks about making the STL safer and goes deep explaining how checked and unchecked iterators work internally and...

Channel 9: Marshalling Library and Vista Development with VC++

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07
Visual CPP Team
The latest Channel 9 video by the Visual C++ team has just been released. This video features Sarita Bafna, a PM on the libraries team, talking about a few of our latest features which are previewed in the March CTP:  “MFC support for Vista” includes support for new Vista file dialogs, support for the new controls ...

Channel 9: Front-end QA

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07
Visual CPP Team
Meet Marina Polishchuk from the Visual C++ QA team in this new video on Channel 9!  Marina helps test the front-end to ensure the best possible quality in the compiler.  Learn more about how she goes about this task by watching the video at https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=285284.Thanks,The Visual C++ Team...

Channel 9: Dive into STL/CLR

February 19, 2007 Feb 19, 2007 02/19/07
Visual CPP Team
In this new Channel 9 video, Nikola Dudar dives deep into the STL/CLR functionality shipping in Orcas.  If you want to take advantage of BCL while using STL syntax and idioms, then this technology is for you.  Watch the video or read his previous blog post to learn more!Thanks,The Visual C++ team...