About code. Mostly on C++
Last week I decided it was time to move forward from Office 2007 and install the new 2010 version. People were asking me for some time if I was trying the beta, but I was stubborn in not installing Office 2010 until the RTM. This is the journal of the past days of using Office … Read more
Congratulations to Paula Seling and Ovi who won the 3rd place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. I linked the winning song too, but I think we could have actually won this year. The good things is that unlike previous years, the best songs ended at the top, even if the preferences order differs from … Read more
I am currently in Oslo for Visma Developer Days 2010, a conference for developers and QAs within Visma R&D and partners, which ended today. There were about 300 people here from five countries. I’ve attended very interesting keynotes on open software, HTML5, Silverlight 4, DITA and Documentation 2.0 and presentation on various topics, ranging from … Read more
Today Microsoft release officially Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, with five major release events and many others across the globe. You can download it from MSDN. Those that don’t have an MSDN subscription can try the evaluation versions available here. Express editions are still available for free and can be downloaded from here. … Read more
I’m sometimes asked what browsers do I use and why. I use Firefox and Chrome, 95% of the time, and IE for those few Microsoft sites that are specially designed to work only with IE. Here is a story that shows an argument why I use those two. A few days ago I used my … Read more
In the past months I have written about what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 with regard to Visual C++. In this post I will summarize these articles. MSBuild and multi-targeting Visual Studio 2010 changes for VC++ (part 1) IntelliSense and Browsing (#include auto completion, call hierarchy, red squiggles, find all references, class wizard) Visual Studio … Read more
I this post I will talk about the deployment changes in VC++ 2010. When you deploy an application to another machine you have to install not only the application but all the libraries that it depends on. When you build with VC++, you have dependencies on CRT (C/C++ runtime) and possible on MFC and/or ATL. … Read more
VC++ Feature Pack that came with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 introduced support for the Office Fluent Ribbon. However, developers had to create ribbons entirely from code, because there was no support in the resource editor for that. Visual Studio 2010 comes with a visual designer for the ribbon. You can choose whether to use a … Read more
Some of the important changs in Visual Studio 2010 in regard to VC++ are represented by the support in the C++ compiler of some of the features already approved for the new C++ standard, so far called C++0x. In this post I will give a short overview on then. static_assert I already wrote a post … Read more
In my previous post I talked about the new build system for VC++ from Visual Studio 2010, which is MSBuild and the support for multi-targetting. In this post I will talk about changes to IntelliSense and browsing. If you go back to the example I was providing in the first post, with the two identical … Read more