Cosmin's Hooking testify

Quite a busy quarter for product Teams zune related, we have an zune software update, with cool missing features (drag & drop, etc) , you can read more info here :what'snew

second good part is that once with 2.5 firmware update, comes also the possibility to extend zune functionality with custom applications , quite cool using XNA 3.0 .Read more about this at http://creators.xna.com/whatsnew.aspx

and not in last, quite interesting news about Zune Phone, and his hype features :

cool, most expected event on the way, get the news here http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc.

and Save the date!

I'm just back from an Community Event in Bad Homburg, were Boris Jabes from Visuals Studio  and ++ Compiler Team had digging into brand new feature pack TR1 and MFC updates. Were quite a lot of interesting stuff, mostly known from beta version, but quite few were quite hype.

As first example - tuple function, How often in the field development we have needs as one function to have more then one return values, ok, you may said, you pass them byvalue parameters, but that's not what an real c++ guy does, right, so here  comes the "new" - Tuple.

   1: int x; double y;

   3:  

   4: x, y = DoSomething();

An follow the code that is the TR1 Support in the new Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack. for this purpose.

   1: #include <iostream>

   2: #include <tuple>

   3:  

   5: using namespace std;

   6: using namespace tr1;

   7:  

   8: tuple<int, double> DoSomething()

   9: {

  10:     int x = 10;

  11:     double y = 20.0;

  12:     return make_tuple(x,y);

  13: }

  16: int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])

  17: {

  18:     int x;

  19:     double y;

  20:  

  21:     tie( x, y ) = DoSomething();

  22:  

  23:     cout << x << endl;

  24:     cout << y << endl;

  25:     

  26:     return 0;

  27: }

Return value it is as tuple defined (line8) and with tie function(line 21) to the right values assigned.

Other things, quite alot, VS 2008 is cool but what's next will be hype, at least from c++ dev. vision .

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb725993.aspx

so keep learning and improve c++ , future is passion :)

quite fast after 2 months of beta release the RTM version of the Feature pack is here, C++ Community is looking forward for next generation of applications using TR1 and new looks and feel.

.For more details please see the VCBlog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/04/07/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released.aspx

You can install the feature pack from  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en

have fun with

beginning of the end, "Singularity", interesting name, but even more interesting what's behind.

here is the Stuff : http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ and not only it is open source on codeplex, quite interesting core internal stuff, but this time, not only Native, mostly Managed, while is a OS written in C#.

few days ago i got an email with some interesting content, at the begging i don't link it with older issues using  Driver development framework on Vista sp1, using Auto Windows Update, but - Evrika !!!

"KMDF Users:  A patch from Windows Update (KB 938371) interferes with installation of the Kernel Mode Driver Framework on Windows Vista.   Testing of the fix is in progress.  Until then, we ask that you not release device drivers using KMDF version 1.7.  "

yeah, that is looks like , driver development Intellisense, with VS 2008, wow quite cool

and least but not last following text from Visual Studio ReadMe.txt, but for sure my opinion will not affect ,Microsoft's policy on this issue.

DISCLAIMER: Visual Studio is not officially supported by Microsoft for driver development. The only currently supported build environment is the command window that comes with the WDK.