April 2007 | C++ Team Blog

Marshaling Library in Orcas

Visual CPP Team April 25, 2007 Apr 25, 2007 04/25/07

Hi, I am Weidong Huang, an SDET on the VC++ library team. I joined MS six months ago and have had a wonderful experience so far. In this post, I would like to talk about a new feature of Orcas, the Marshaling Library, which is also the first feature I’ve worked on at MS.What is marshaling library?The marshaling library helps to ...

Visual Studio Express Orcas

Visual CPP Team April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07

The Community Technology Preview of the Visual Studio Express "Orcas" product is available for download now. Try out the CTP for the Visual C++ "Orcas" Express Edition and let us know your feedback. You can use the VC++ Orcas Forums to discuss relates issues.Looking forward to your feedback!Thanks,The Visual C++ Development Team...

Header files and the preprocessor – Can't Live With 'em, Can't Live Without 'em

Visual CPP Team April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07

Hello, my name is Richard Russo. I'm the newest member of the Visual C++ compiler front-end developer team, having started in January. I'm not new to MS though as I spent the last three years working on Windows Vista. I'm excited to be on the front-end team because compiler development has been a hobby of mine for a few years...

Channel 9: VC++ Safe Libraries and More

Visual CPP Team April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07

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...

Resource Editor Updates for Orcas

Visual CPP Team April 11, 2007 Apr 11, 2007 04/11/07

Hi,My name is Bogdan Mihalcea; I’m a developer in the Visual C++ IDE team. In the course of the last few months we have updated the Resource Editor to support new Windows Vista features and guidelines.We concentrated our efforts around the Dialog Editor, Image Editor and Icon Editor. Below you will find a summary of the updates we have ...

Visual C++ Orcas Feature Specifications online

Visual CPP Team April 10, 2007 Apr 10, 2007 04/10/07

To allow customers to evaluate and plan for our upcoming "Visual Studio Orcas" release (and to highlight exactly what we have accomplished), we are sharing our Orcas Feature Specifications as soon as features make it out the door – either via a Community Technology Preview (CTP) or, in the future, as part of an Orcas Beta. The March CTP...

The Cost of a Test Defect

Visual CPP Team April 2, 2007 Apr 2, 2007 04/2/07

Hi, I’m Marina Polishchuk, an SDET on the VC++ Compiler Front End team. Recently, I have been working on investigating Orcas test pass results, which involves validating and reproducing the results, researching into causes of failures, and filing bugs when appropriate. This is a typical activity for an SDET throughout the ...

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