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Visual C++ Highlights

Give Us Your Feedback on Visual Studio Documentation
Help us help you by taking 10 minutes to fill out our Visual Studio Content Survey on how to improve... more
Wednesday, Oct 28

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers
Now online, updated with plenty of C++ content, including new MFC modules for High DPI, Taskbar, Tou... more
Thursday, Oct 22

Windows 7 Developer Guide
The MSDN Library guide to developing for Windows 7.
Thursday, Oct 22

Downloads

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1
Try the latest Beta versions of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.

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"How Do I?" Videos

How Do I: Use the SysLink Control in MFC?
In this video, Jonathan Wood shows how to use the SysLink control, which allows you to easily place hyperlinks in a dialog box.

How Do I: Use the CComboBoxEx Control?
In this video, Jonathan Wood demonstrates how to use the CComboBoxEx class to create a combo box and associate an image with each item in the list.

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Featured Visual C++ Library Content

Important updates and highlights of Visual C++ content in the MSDN Library.

Optimizing Your Code (Visual C++ 2010 Beta)
Optimization is the process of fine-tuning executa... more
Saturday, Nov 7

Examples of Lambda Expressions (Visual C++ 2010 Beta)
This topic contains examples of how to use lambda... more
Tuesday, Oct 20

Deployment in Visual C++ 2010 (Visual C++ 2010)
When you deploy an application to another computer... more
Friday, Oct 2

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Visual C++ Team Blog

Visual C++ Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010
Hello, I’m Ten Tzen, a Compiler Architect on the Visual C++ Compiler Code Generation team. Today, I’m going to introduce some noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio 2010. Faster LTCG Compila... more
Monday, Nov 2 by vcblog

Channel 9 Video: Stephan T. Lavavej - Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr
Stephan T. Lavavej is back in front of the Channel 9 cameras once again for a discussion on our recently implemented C++0x feature “nullptr”. In a previous channel 9 appearance, Stephan spoke about th... more
Tuesday, Oct 27 by vcblog

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Is Now Available For Download
We are very pleased to announce we have released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. You can read the official Beta 2 announcement on Soma’s blog. The Visual C++ team has added a few new features and, of... more
Thursday, Oct 22 by vcblog

Visual C++ Code Model in Visual Studio 2010
Hello, I’m Vytautas Leonavičius, a developer on the Visual C++ IDE team. Today, I’d like to discuss how the new principles we’re applying to code browsing in Visual Studio 2010 (see here and here) wil... more
Wednesday, Oct 14 by vcblog

The ATL/MFC Trace Tool and the Tracing Mechanism
Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group. Some time back I wrote about Spy++. Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging too... more
Thursday, Oct 8 by vcblog

Visual C++ 2008 MFC Feature Pack

MFC Classes Quick Guide (2008)

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Visual C++ Libraries Reference (2005)

Visual C++ Code Gallery Samples

Windows Web Services
With the introduction of the Windows Web Services... more
Wednesday, Nov 4 by MSDN Code Gallery

All-In-One Code Framework (CodeFx)
All-In-One Code Framework code-name CodeFx delinea... more
Monday, Oct 12 by MSDN Code Gallery

Scenario
A Scenario object is a highly-accurate timer that... more
Sunday, Oct 11 by MSDN Code Gallery

Loading resources from .Net and MUI binaries in Visual C++
This sample demonstrates the versatility of Visual... more
Friday, Oct 9 by MSDN Code Gallery

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Visual C++ Projects from CodePlex

glBase
glBase makes it easier for graphics programmers to... more
Saturday, Sep 26 by CodePlex

Text Designer Outline Text Library
This project helps native C++ and .Net dev... more
Sunday, Sep 20 by CodePlex

Trading Application Foundation
This is a base / foundation for a trading appl... more
Tuesday, Sep 8 by CodePlex

ProcessMemoryDumper
Process Memory Dumper it's developed for IT Co... more
Friday, Jul 31 by CodePlex

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