[RESOLVED] Industrial Automation and Visual C++

[RonaldLaeremans]

All these were written in VC++ 6 with the platform SDK(Oct 2002) despite VS2003 is already available(It is the same for the 3 companies I worked). We designed the hardware, firmware,and device drivers(written by us as well) to communicate the hardware, and the UI application.

The reason we used VC is because it is fast and we do not need .Net .

Visual C++ 2002, 2003, 2005 are and Oracs will be significantly faster and more secure inthe code they generate (between 6.0 and 2005 the performance of generated code with the maximum optimizations available and running on a current CPU is generally > 10-15% faster and in many case much more than that) and not any of these releases require the application you write to take a dependency on .Net at all.

I am wondering what is Visual C++ team strategy for writing really fast code as I am writing visualization code to show the status of the system which should be very instanteous. It looks as if to me that VC team is only focus to support writing application with .Net .

As I mentioned above we have made _massive_ investments in the performance, security and robustness of native code. And in the Orcas release the focus will be on supporting the enhancemenst in Vista that are exposed through native Win32 or COM APIS.

In addition in the 2005 release we redesigned Intellisense and browsing to be based on live data instead of a static snapshot and in addition Intellisense now understand almost all of moderns C++ compared to only a very limited subset in the 6.0 release. Furthernore we made significant enhancements in the debugger like visualizers for STL data structures. And of course we have made aboslutely massive strides in increasing the comformance with the C++ standard in the 2003 release. These were exactly the top customer requests.

Please let us know what specifically you are looking for in future releases.

Thanks.

Ronald Laeremans
Acting Product Unit Manager
Visual C++ Team