Release of Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft announced yesterday that it released VS 2008 to manufacturing. For now, it is only available for MSDN subscribers. The official public release will happen on February 27, 2008 at Los Angeles. You can have an overview of the product here. You can read more about the product on the home page.

Create a font with the desired size

Let’s asume you want to change the font of a window\control and for the sake of simplicity let’s consider an MFC dialog application. In that case, there are several steps you should follow: declare a CFont variable in the dialog class create the font in OnInitDialog (using CreateFont) set the font to the control (using … Read more

Launch of Visual Studio 2008

A couple of days ago, Somasegar has announced that Microsoft is on track to release Visual Studio 2008 before the end of November 2007. On the other hand, the marketing release will take place on Februarie 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You can read the announcement on … Read more