C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
June 29, 2006Jun 29, 200606/29/06Hi: my name is Jonathan Caves and I’m a developer on the Visual C++ Compiler Team. I thought I’d take a few moments to let you know about the plans our team has for the next release of Visual C++.
After the last release of Visual C++ we took a long,
June 22, 2006Jun 22, 200606/22/06Hi, my name is Leslie Giblett and I’m a Release Manager on the Visual C++ team. As a Release Manager, I am responsible for insuring that the VC++ team releases a high quality product that tracks to our planned schedules. I work closely with our Management,
June 22, 2006Jun 22, 200606/22/06Invalid range check in checked_array_iterator operator [] (Beowulff)_localtime64. Bug in “manual” conversion to local time. (wtom)error on std::malloc, std::free with _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC (Martin Sebor)Deprecation warning in CRT and SCL (C++ Standard)event_source(com) attribute causing c4701 warning (AdeskDaug)Tools > Error Lookup (Adam Tatusko)uninitialised variable in ATL classes for performance counters (Frank Eden)ATL::W2A_CP misses a closing bracket (Ilia)atlsoap.h: Call to InternetConnect with invalid parameters (Eric Bauersachs)misformatted deprecated warning message (Chris Conti)debugging operator new does not throw (yecril)C2059 in stdlib.h (yecril)LastError not always set in CAsyncSocket::Connect (beinhaerter)MAX_CONNECT_LEN is too small (yecril)Perf: Two TlsGetValue calls in _getptdnoexit when we could use 1 ()VCRT Merge Module requires MSI 3.x for uninstall ()CComSafeArray::Resize can break lock count of wrapped SAFEARRAY (Kim Grsman)AtlIPersistPropertyBag_Load incorrectly decrements ref count of a property which is an object (Mike at work)CComUnkArray::Add doesn’t compile (mlveggo)The WriteData function (atlmime.h) accesses 1 byte passed the end of a buffer (SYSTECJF)[MFC] Access violation reading invalid object from CArchive (Sergey Vlasov)static analysis shows C6011 warning in Microsoft supplied xstring header file (David Lowndes)CEnumerator::Find has wrong implemenation in atldbcli.h with a pointer to data hold by a temporary class (erni)fgetpos gives a negative result when the stream is UTF-8 (yecril)potential bug in atlsoap.h: m_nDepth not initialized (Eric Bauersachs)MFC Activex control crashes when executing CreateManagedControl (MadhuK)_tcsncpy doesn’t work with _CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES_COUNT (mischief)false C4244 (dschwart)strxfrm crashes if output buffer is NULL (wva)?????ATL OLEDB ?????????????????????????????
June 22, 2006Jun 22, 200606/22/06TERNARY: Compiler error: arrays decay into pointers (Mycroft Holmes)Properties of nested classes cannot access inherited protected members (C++/CLI) (Bekas)LVALUE: DIAG: Bogus error “C2102: ‘&’ requires l-value” on valid code. (Paul Pluzhnikov)CONFORM: For references of function type ,argument deduction behaves incorrectly (ppliu)[CUSTOMER,
June 22, 2006Jun 22, 200606/22/06Internal Compiler Error C1001 at compiler file ‘f:vs70builds3077vcCompilerUtcsrcP2main.c’, line 148 when compiling file from ATLAS math lib (fullung)EH: BADIL: Inconsistent order of execution of destructors and finally blocks during stack unwinding (igorf)nmake doesn’t read the Tools.ini file properly. (Reality)Can’t compile project from command line during automated build executed under Local System account (fatal error C1902) (Kirill Kovalenko)Exception handler bug in VC8 compiler (paul_at_foobar_nu)Generated code reads from uninitialized memory (Math Nerd)Internal error during IMAGE::BuildImage encountered (Brian_Kramer)optimizer produces incorrect code with particular code segment (Paxton Mason)VS2005 C++ x64 code generation bug when optimizer enabled (Sergey Kashyrin)Nesting wcscat and wcscpy seems to produce invalid code (kwtc)_pexit not always generated properly (Joev Dubach)wrong code is generated for 64-bit assignment in 32-bit mode with optimization (pkou)msvc optimizer bug with floating point and mmx instructions in asm block (Genady Beryozkin)Compiler bug when compiling a mix of floating point(in C) and MMX instructions.
June 22, 2006Jun 22, 200606/22/06Can’t display xmm1 in 64bit debugging watch window (spec)Add a keyboard shortcut for editing an existing user macro (Avery Lee)changing preprocessor definitions with #ifdef code open in editor causes graying to foul up (x64) (zeromus)Parameter help highlighting of current parameter inside the definition of inherited overridden functions is broken (always highlights the first parameter only) (sXe__)TextPoint / GetStartPoint inaccurate in certain cases (Nobody1234)resource editor crash (knoepfle)Import settings does not persist/use directories (Nick42blah)Custom build steps are ignored during build of a library project unless the user manually changes them ()ATL Wizard for OLEDB provider generates incorrect example code for returning table schema (sWozzie)Resource editor chokes on strings with embedded null (’00’) characters (Owen Wengerd)Managed c++ project fails to add a web reference (gchippie)Visual Studio does not check-out the “resource.hm”
June 16, 2006Jun 16, 200606/16/06Hi, my name is Ameya Limaye and I am a developer on the VC++ IDE Team, working mainly on the Intellisense, Browsing and Editor feature areas. Prior to this I was on the VC++ Compiler Team. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss several of the improvements we have made in VS 2005 and some of the stuff we are working on for VS 2005 SP1 and Orcas (the next version of VS).
June 12, 2006Jun 12, 200606/12/06Hi! My name is Martyn Lovell, and I’m the development lead on the Visual C++ Libraries team. You might have seen me blog
before, (though I never seem to manage to get regular enough). You might also have caught me recently on video on Channel 9.
June 8, 2006Jun 8, 200606/8/06Microsoft has made its x86 assembler available as a free download. The Microsoft Macro Assembler 8.0 (MASM) is a tool that compiles x86 assembly language programs and generates corresponding binaries. Assembly language programs built with MASM can be edited and debugged using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.
June 7, 2006Jun 7, 200606/7/06For the Orcas release we want to only fix bugs that won’t create barriers to adoption. We have created a set of guidelines that describe high severity and adoption blocking bugs. Essentially, in each of the below subsystems we will try to minimize the overall number of changes. Internally,
