C++ Team Blog

Custom Wizards

March 28, 2007 Mar 28, 2007 03/28/07

Visual CPP Team

My name is Martha Wieczorek; I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in Visual C++ IDE team. I am going to talk about Custom Wizards and the changes made to this wizard in Visual Studio codename Orcas. Wizard is the name for a Visual Studio feature that facilitates the creation of new projects or items. Each of the project types listed in...

Spy++ Update

March 22, 2007 Mar 22, 2007 03/22/07

Visual CPP Team

Hi, Pat Brenner again.  I recently posted an article about Spy++ internals.  I have some updates that I want to share with you.  Some of this article will be clearer if you first read that one. First, Spy++ has been updated for Visual Studio codename Orcas to handle the new common controls/messages/flags added in Windows ...

Multi-processor builds in Orcas

March 12, 2007 Mar 12, 2007 03/12/07

Visual CPP Team

Hey again, everyone.  I’m Peter-Michael, a program manager with the VC++ compiler team.  Continuing with the Orcas feature parade, I'd like to talk about the compiler's team contribution to the product.  Back in June, Jonathan Caves posted about the compiler team’s plans for Orcas.  To recap, the compiler team ...

USA Daylight Savings Time (DST) Update

March 8, 2007 Mar 8, 2007 03/8/07

Visual CPP Team

Starting from March 2007, the Daylight Savings Time (DST) start date and end date for the United States will change. DST will start at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March and end at 2:00 A.M on the first Sunday in November. The C Run-Time (CRT) performs its own time handling only when the TZ environment variable is set, or when an ...

ATL Server: Shared Source Release Now Available!

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07

Visual CPP Team

ATL Server is now released as a shared source project on CodePlex.com!  You can download all the source to ATL Server and use it with recently released March CTP of Visual Studio codename Orcas.  The release of this code allows developers to innovate and evolve the library to meet needs of their applications.To learn more, ...

Managed Incremental Build

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07

Visual CPP Team

Real-world solutions typically consist of multiple projects - often many projects. The projects are usually related to each other in some sort of dependency relationship. For example, consider a solution with 3 primary output targets (P1-3), a few intermediate components (I1-5), and a few shared dlls (L1-3). The dependencies might look ...