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I want to thank everyone that came to chat with us! Your thoughts and feedback are much appreciated, and I can assure you that chatting with you this week has definitely been our pleasure!

All the...

We don't have any plans right now to provide infrastructure in Visual Studio to support C++ development targeting non-Microsoft platforms. It's funny you ask, because I actually had a conversation...

We're doing some research in this area right now, but as of now this research is not close to being productized.

Thanks,

Steve Teixeira
Group Program Manager
Visual C++

Regarding the Orcas release in general: we are already executing on our development plan. At this point, it would be very difficult for us to schedule any new Orcas features. As I mentioned in...

It's still too early to talk about a lot of specifics, but I can say that the general theme of the Orcas release is to enable developers to build applications that leverage the platform capabilities...

Just ATL Server. We are not considering deprecating all of ATL in Orcas -- COM remains alive and well, despite what you may have heard. :)

Thanks,

Steve Teixeira
Group Program Manager...

C# is a great language, and is actually my language of choice in most scenarios when developing pure, safe managed code. C++/CLI offers some nice linguistic goodies, such as templates, deterministic...

>>1) Performance related : Do managed applications written in Managed C++ run faster than the same application written in C#?<<

Managed code written in C++/CLI does tend to perform better than...

We don't have plans to support the LINQ technologies in C++ in the Orcas release. We haven't ruled out supporting LINQ in a subsequent release. When/if we do LINQ will depend in large part on...

Hi Sygnosys,

>>I did sincerely did not expect that ATL would provide all of the WS-* enhancements, just the one regarding Security.<<

The problem is that ATL Server would need so much work to...

We ship the source code to MFC with most SKUs of Visual C++, but the .NET Framework does not ship with source. This is why you don't see source to .NET Framework functions in the debugger. ...

orcmid: Yes, it can be difficult for beginning to understand where to use native and managed code and how to interoperate between the two. We know this is an issue and strive to continuously improve...

Just to be really, really clear: we *are* investing in MFC in the Orcas release. You're not going to see drastic enhancements to the programming model or anything like that, but you will see -- for...

At this time, our recommendation is to use ASP.NET Web Services for developing web services. Going forward, Windows Communication Foundation in .NET 3.0 will be the preferred technology for...

1) We support mixing managed and native C++ in a single project (heck, we support the mix in a single file!) today in Visual C++ 2005 with the "/clr" compiler option, and we plan to continue...

Your question is probably more an issue of frameworks than native vs. managed code. You're right on that WinForms' delegates and events make for a nicer programming model than MFC's message maps. ...

Easy access and automatic enablement of the new Vista common file dialog are features we'd like to enable for CFileDialog in Orcas. However, I won't say "yes, we're definitely doing it!" until we...