Using Visual Stu­dio 2010 with Ser­vice Pack 1, try doing the following:

1. cre­ate a new project of type Win32 Console Application, and under Application Settings in the project wiz­ard, select Console Application and Empty Project.
2. cre­ate a sin­gle .cpp file
3. add the code int main() {} to it
4. hit build. (more…)

A term that’s become very pop­u­lar, and which espe­cially Microsoft’s devel­op­ers seem to cham­pion, is “dog­food­ing”. The idea that as a devel­oper, you should use your own prod­ucts on a daily basis, even dur­ing devel­op­ment. This exposes you to all the weak­nesses and flaws of the prod­uct, and makes you much bet­ter equipped to deliver a prod­uct that’s actu­ally worth using. (more…)

As I men­tioned ear­lier, I’d like to cel­e­brate the new year by call­ing out a few prod­ucts I’d like to see improved in the new year.

First in line is Microsoft’s C++ com­piler and IDE. (more…)