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"How Do I?" Videos

How Do I: Use the SysLink Control in MFC?
In this video, Jonathan W... mais
Tuesday, Jan 27
How Do I: Use the CComboBoxEx Control?
In this video, Jonathan W... mais
Tuesday, Jan 27

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Visual C++ Highlights

Selected Microsoft content, along with useful C++ content from across the Web chosen by Visual C++ MVPs.

VC 10: Stephan T. Lavavej and Damien Watkins - Inside STL
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 introduces a number of exciting new features for the C++ developer as we i... mais
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta 1
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft.... mais
10-4 Episode 5: Code Focused in Visual Studio 2010
This episode looks at the new code editor in Visual Studio 2010.

Solving the race condition in CAtlExeModuleT
An article describing the race condition in the CA... mais
Practical ATL: Implementing a non-standard class object
An article describing how to implement a non stand... mais
What are surrogates
Blog post by Raymond Chen, explaining what surroga... mais

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Featured Visual C++ Library Content

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

Pragma Directives and the __Pragma Keyword (Visual C++ 2008)
Pragma directives specify machine- or operating sy... mais
Friday, Jun 26
SafeIntException Class (Visual C++ 2010)
The SafeInt class uses SafeIntException to identif... mais
Friday, Jun 19
SafeInt Class (Visual C++ 2010)
The SafeInt class extends the integer classes to h... mais
Friday, Jun 19

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Downloads

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack
The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack release contains a major update to MFC as well as an implementation of TR1.

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Visual C++ Team Blog

VC++ Directories in Visual Studio 2010
If you recently started using VS2010 and were wondering what happened to Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > VC++ Directories UI, Brian Tyler has all the details in his new post on the... mais
Wednesday, Jul 8 - vcblog
X64/Itanium platforms missing when Win7 SDK RC installed sidebyside with VS2008 RTM
If Win7 SDK (RC) is installed SidebySide with Visual Studio 2008 RTM before Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is installed, x64 and Itanium platform will not be available from the New Platform drop-down list. Bu... mais
Wednesday, Jul 1 - vcblog
STL Performance
Hello, I am Mohammad Usman, a Software Design Engineer in Test on the Visual C++ Libraries team. I recently joined the team. In VS 2008 SP1, we invested heavily in our Standard Template Library (STL)... mais
Tuesday, Jun 23 - vcblog
Channel 9 Video: Bogdan Mihalcea: The New VC++ Project/Build system - MSBuild for C++
Bogdan Mihalcea is a developer on the Visual C++ team. During the development of Visual Studio 2010 he has been feverously working on converting our build system to target MS Build as the build infras... mais
Monday, Jun 22 - vcblog
Channel 9 Video: David LeBlanc (and Ale Contenti): Inside SafeInt
David LeBlanc and Michael Howard literally wrote the book on “Writing Secure Code”. David has also developed the SafeInt  class, a template class that performs “checked” operations on integer typ... mais
Tuesday, Jun 16 - vcblog

Resources

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MSDN Magazine

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Channel 9Visual C++ Content on Channel 9
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