April 2008 - Posts
About a year ago we decided to host selected popularly requested Hotfixes on the Connect site . The feedback on this has been positive, however as with any new program, there were some things we discovered we could do better. We are making updates to
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More and more developers around the world want to create world-ready applications and this requires various types of support from the .NET Framework and Base Class Libraries such as the ability to support culture and language-specific conversions or interact
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We aspire to reach customers from around the world with our products. People speak and work in different languages depending on where you are in the world. To make it easy for people to be able to use our products in a language of their choice, we localize
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A few weeks ago we announced the DreamSpark program which allows students free access to many Microsoft developer technologies. I wanted to share with you something related to this program that I was impressed with this week. A young developer, Nathan
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In early January, we delivered a Beta of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature pack. I am pleased to announce that the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has shipped! The Feature Pack provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC
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