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Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 Pictures

2 May, 2008  No Comment

I finally found some time to post a few pictures of the Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 in Seattle. The summit was great. There were 1753 MVPs from all over the world attending the summit. The sessions given by Microsoft product groups were very interesting. I went to all the Visual C++ sessions and it was great to hear the direction in which they are going with the product. One thing they made perfectly clear is that MFC is not dead :) They are putting interesting new things in upcoming versions of MFC which allow you to create modern user interfaces for your MFC applications. One such thing is the ribon bar which is part of the MFC Feature Pack for Visual Studio 2008. Below you can see some pictures taken during the summit. Read the rest of this entry »

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

2 Feb, 2008  No Comment

Maybe a bit late, but for those who missed the announcement, Microsoft has released a beta of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack.

The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack extends the VC++ Libraries shipped with Visual Studio 2008.New MFC features include:

  • Office Ribbon style interface
  • Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel
  • Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes
  • Fully customizable toolbars and menus
  • A rich set of advanced GUI controls
  • Advanced MDI tabs and groups
  • And much more!

This feature pack also includes an implementation of TR1. Portions of TR1 are scheduled for adoption in the upcoming C++0x standard as the first major addition to the ISO 2003 standard C++ library. The following feature are currently supported:

  • Smart pointers
  • Regular expression parsing
  • New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc)
  • Sophisticated random number generators
  • Polymorphic function wrappers
  • Type traits
  • And more!

Note: This feature pack does not include C99 compatibility or support for special math functions.

Download the beta.

How to Save and Load a Windows Region with MFC

16 Apr, 2007  No Comment

I wrote an article for CodeGuru that explains in details how to save a Windows region to a file using CRgn::GetRegionData and how to load and re-create this saved region with CRgn::CreateFromData using MFC.

There are 2 functions in the article: SaveRegion and LoadRegion. Read the rest of this entry »