Yeah yeah, I know haven't posted in quite some time. Well had a interesting few weeks thus far, and time just flies....anyway with Microsoft moving into a new building and having it basically being built around us, thats always fun :-p Oh well such is life. At least we're in and we have network access etc :-)

For those of you interested in C++, here's a interesting bit you should check out...

Online Chat: Visual C++ 2005 Library and Runtime Enhancements

The next release of Visual C++ includes many new and enhanced libraries which improve security, support managed code and integrate existing applications and components. The CRT and STL fully support managed applications. There is a new secure CRT and STL that offer safe interfaces to familiar functionality. The managed support library provides conveniences such as lock patterns, COM interface wrapping and type marshaling templates. MFC has new support for integration with .NET Windows Forms to enable incremental migration of existing UI to incorporate .NET controls and forms. Bring your questions about new and existing application development to find out more on the next generation of libraries in Visual C++.

September 16, 2004
12:00 - 1:00 P.M. Pacific time
3:00 - 4:00 P.M. Eastern time
19:00 - 20:00 GMT

Chat time for cities world-wide:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=9&year=2004&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=234&sort=1 

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/MSDN_VC2005LRI_Sep16_04.ics 

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