Thanks Fury...Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse Friday of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates will detail improvements planned for its Visual C++ tool, which is included in its Visual Studio.Net bundle. Microsoft on Thursday disclosed planned revisions for its Visual C# tool, also included in the Visual Studio.Net.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said this summer that it plans to revamp its tools to work with new products expected to ship in the coming months. Those products include Windows.Net Server, the next version of Microsoft's server operating system, and an upcoming release of the company's SQL Server database code-named Yukon.
At the Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) conference on Friday, Gates is expected to disclose further details of an update to Visual C++, planned for release early next year as part of a Visual Studio.Net update code-named Everett. Everett will include a C++ compiler that is for the first time largely compliant with a standards set down by the International Organization for tandardization (ISO) nearly six years ago. Microsoft said its C++ compiler had been around 90 percent compliant with the standard. The Everett release will bring that closer to 98 percent, said Nick Hodapp, a Microsoft product manager.
Hodapp said the standards compliance is significant because it will now allow Visual C++ developers to take advantage of several popular development libraries, including Boost, Blitz and Loki. Libraries include pre-built code that let developers more quickly construct software applications.
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