This final installment wraps up the coverage of what's new in the IDE with a look at Tracepoints, new project types, enhancements to the Server Explorer, and new functionality for creating C++ projects.
The Visual C++ 2005 IDE team made two painful cuts in Beta 2 related to the Class Designer and IDE Click Once support. Read up on these significant changes and find out how C++/CLI programmers can still take advantage of ClickOnce to deploy their applications.
MSBuild is one of the major new features in Visual Studio .NET 2005. Discover the motivation for MSBuild, how it works, and how Visual C++ developers can get their hands on it.
Learn how to write macros for C++ in Visual Studio.
Very cool Registry hack to allow for the selection of ANY COLOR for syntax hilighting
Learn to implement exception handling mechanism in C++.
Learn about TypeScript: what it is, and its type system.
Learn how to detect if a touchscreen is available on the device running your application. You'll also see how to display a touch-enabled keyboard!
Take advantage of pattern matching to check for patterns in your code, improve performance, and simplify your code.
