About code. Mostly on C++
Let me spoil it for you: it’s not an actually class designer, because it’s only one way. It should have been called Class Viewer, but probably it get’s more publicity if it’s called designer. Let me explain how to us it. Of course, you need to have some source code for which you want to … Read more
The first CTP (called August 2007 CTP) for the next version of Visual Studio Team System code-named ‘Rosario’ (after a resort located on the Orcas Island, Seattle) was released at the end of the last week. This will be the next version after Visual Studio Team System 2008 (that will be officially launched on February … Read more
Beta 2 for VS 2008 was made available at the end of the last week. It inclues beta releases for standard, professional, team system editions and the MSDN library. It also includes the beta 2 for the .NET Framework 3.5 and a CTP for the Silverlight add-in for VS 2008 that allows you working with Silverlight … Read more
Microsoft has announced yesterday that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL server 2008 will all be released on 27 February 2008 at an event in Los Angeles. In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL … Read more
You might be interested in this topic if you experienced the following problem: developed your VC++ application with Visual Studio 2005, it worked ok on your computer and when you put it on another it does not run, or your application run both on your machine and other machines (without VS 2005 installed), but after … Read more
Monday, June 4, Microsoft announced during the TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida, that Visual Studio code-named ‘Orcas’ was renamed Visual Studio 2008. They also announced that a second beta version will be available by the end of the summer, and it will include Visual Studio Shell, which allows developers to create an distribute tools built … Read more
Suppose you have the following code: void foo() { throw std::runtime_error(“a foo exception!”); } int main() { foo(); } When running the program, the following window is popped up: When running it in the debugger, a different window is popped up: and the debugger takes you to the line of code that threw the exception. … Read more
In a previous post I explained than when you create a MFC application with the March CTP of ‘Orcas’ and add a command or split button to a dialog, the .rc file is not compiled, because styles such as BS_COMMANDLINK are not found. My workaround for the moment was to redeclare them in the resource.h … Read more
Have you ever wondered how many words the Visual Studio IDE has? Or how many words are in the documentation? Well, according to Fabrice Fonk from the MSDN DevWiki project, the numbers are: 1 million words for the IDE over 50 million words in the documentation You can hear it from himself in this video.
Suppose you have a class foo like this: class foo { public: int X; int Y; int Z; foo(int x = 0, int y = 0, int z = 0): X(x), Y(y), Z(z) {} }; And you have a variable f(1, 2, 3) what you watch in your Watch window. The window looks like this: … Read more