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Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:01 PM by arich
Recently launched at http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog , the VC team is attempting an almost frightening level of transparency (in my opinion). Customer comments I've read so far have ranged from mildly disinterested to "I'm never going to use your product Read More...
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Properties Part 2 - defining default properties

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:10 PM by arich
Disclaimer. This is an ancient post. By the looks of it, I originally intended to write this almost a year ago, as a follow up to my scalar properties writeup . That was back when I was testing properties (and more exactly, default properties) and some Read More...
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The long-awaited return of DF

Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:10 PM by arich
Back from the dead Well, not precisely dead, but I certainly began feeling that way - shipping a product is hard work, and it is incredibly easy to get "heads down." Here on the VCQA team, we're very focused on stabilization. A lot of testruns. Harsh Read More...
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C++ DF Discussion on hold

Posted Monday, January 17, 2005 4:30 PM by arich
Astute readers may note two things: 1) It has been a while since I posted what should have been a followup to the previous posts, wherein I complete my discussion of the C++ DF model, and finally get this DF monkey off my back. And 2) that a previous Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization IV - Benefits, part II

Posted Friday, November 05, 2004 11:52 AM by arich
Long ago , I wrote a post on the first part of DF benefits. Now, I'm finally getting back to it. My apologies about the laxness in posting. Blame it on my Cards losing to the Sox. And on being really busy with testpasses and bug bounces for a while. We're Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization III - Benefits, part 1

Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 2:34 PM by arich
I'm pretty angry at blogs.msdn.com right now (or maybe I'm just angry at myself), as it completely nuked a post I had composed, because my session had timed out on it. I went to post, and it asked me to log in, and in the process destroyed a lot of work. Read More...
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Deterministic Finalization I - a primer for CLR Dispose

Posted Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:49 PM by arich
A large subject like DF needs a few posts. My generalized plan to lay it out will start by describing the CLR's Dispose pattern, how our DF pattern works, and finally how the two patterns fit together. The CLR's Dispose patterns can be quite confusing. Read More...
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Another good customer bug

Posted Monday, September 13, 2004 10:28 AM by arich
Reader Andy Neilson writes in with another bug: The current compiler implementation has some problems. If the variable is a field of this, then the compiler will die. For example: class MyClass { public: int i; void Foo() { array<int>^ x = {1, 2, Read More...
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I love when customers find bugs!

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:12 PM by arich
Reader Rob Walker asks: Is there a neat way of handling dictionaries? I have a Dictionary<Guid, Object^> and want to iterate over the values. Currently I have to use the syntax: for each(KeyValuePair<Guid, Object^> v in dict) { v.Value ... Read More...
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The C++ "for each" syntax

Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:09 PM by arich
For Each? I won't go into a huge justification - suffice to say, there are some instances where it is nice to be able to iterate over a set, and perform operations on each member of that set. A good primer might be the MSDN node on C# foreach . A basic Read More...
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Pinning Pointers

Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 10:32 AM by arich
Hot on the heels of my article on interior pointers, comes a much more insightful one by Stan Lippman on the same issue . That happens sometimes. I enjoyed the chat we had on the VC++ 2005 Beta, and I wanted to point that there are two other online chats Read More...
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Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Beta

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 1:46 PM by arich
We're having an online VC++ chat this coming Thursday. I and several of my coworkers from all areas of the product (IDE, front-end, back-end, etc.) will be available for questions. If you're interested in attending, here's the announcement they asked Read More...
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Interior Pointers

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 1:28 PM by arich
Where's the rest of the properties stuff? I was going to write about default properties in this entry (and have quite a lengthy one saved for future use), but there are a few disagreements I have with the current implementation of default properties, Read More...
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Properties Part 1 - the updated property syntax

Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:38 PM by arich
What are properties? Technically, properties are CLR "aliases." They are exposed as standard methods, and any compiler that consumes them simply transforms the user's code into the proper function calls. Similarly, any compiler that wants to author CLR Read More...
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.NET, 7.0, 2003, what's it all mean?

Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 9:53 AM by arich
A reader asked the question: Is .NET, in fact, the SAME THING as Visual Studio 7.0? Could it be possible that a developer with .NET would be able to simply open the project file and recompile without rewriting code? .NET itself is a runtime. Unfortunately, Read More...
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