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VS2010 SP1 Beta: What’s in It for C++ Developers

December 9, 2010 Dec 9, 2010 12/9/10
Visual CPP Team
(image)  As announced two  days ago by S. Somasegar and Jason Zander, the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details...

Microsoft Tells What's Next for C++

December 5, 2010 Dec 5, 2010 12/5/10
Visual CPP Team
 By chance,  are you among those who think that Microsoft is leaving native development in general and the C++ programming language in particular behind? You better watch this interview to Ale Contenti, Principal Development Manager with the Windows C++ team at Microsoft. [View:http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/bdef/183a9795-09f1-...

How we test the compiler performance

July 7, 2010 Jul 7, 2010 07/7/10
Visual CPP Team
The C++ back-end team is very conscious of the performance of our product.  Today I will present to you an overview of how we define “performance of our product” and the way we measure it.  Along the way I hope to introduce you to some new ideas that you can use to test your product’s performance as well. You can ...

Announcing Hilo

May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 05/25/10
Visual CPP Team
What is Hilo? Project “Hilo” is an effort to tell the story of building high performing, responsive rich Windows applications using C++. We will do this by walking you through our own experience of building some sample applications which we believe provide differentiated user experiences. We will tell you everything from setting up the ...

Visual C++ is coming to a city near you!

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10
Visual CPP Team
With the Visual Studio 2010 launch around the corner, members of the Visual C++ team will be traveling around the world to meet with you and showcase the many new features Visual Studio 2010 has to offer for C++ developers. If we are coming to a stop near you, feel free to drop us an email and let us know. We will be delighted to meet ...

C++ Build Parallelization Post On Visual Studio blog

March 23, 2010 Mar 23, 2010 03/23/10
Visual CPP Team
Visual Studio 2010 has some enhancements that provide an easy way to get faster builds on a multiprocessor computer through parallelism. Dan Moseley a Lead Developer on MSBuild has written a blog on the C++ Build Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010.   Thank you,   Marian Luparu and Kelly Evans Visual C++ Team...

VC++ Developer Survey

March 22, 2010 Mar 22, 2010 03/22/10
Visual CPP Team
As we wrap up Visual Studio 2010, we are starting to plan the next release of Visual C++. Our goal is to make Visual C++ a product that meets your needs. Thus we need your help.  We would like to better understand what you do. Please take a few minutes and answer the survey below. The survey is totally anonymous and the data that you ...