The scope of this forum
I wanted to clarify the scope of this forum. It is dedicated to questions specifically about the 2005 (Whidbey) Beta 2 and later CTP releases of Visual C++ or the C++ features of Visual Studio.
For general C++ questions or general development questions (unrelated to Microsoft implementation issues or features), please use your favorite general C++ or development forums or newsgroups.
For questions specifically about the C++ language as implemented in the 2005 release, please use the Visual C++ language forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=96
For questions about other parts of Visual Studio 2005, please use the appropriate newsgroup in the list here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/
For questions about Win32 programming, previous releases of Visual C++ and Visual Studio, please use the MSDN newsgroups that are all linked off:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/
Since the content of this forum is part of the online documentation set for the 2005 release of Visual C++, it will increase the usefulness significantly if all questions in this forum are directly relevant. So the forum moderators will be moving posts (to the other web forums) or deleting posts (in which case we will try to provide a direct link to where the question should be directed) to keep this forum on topic.
Thanks!
Ronald Laeremans
Group Program Manager
Visual C++ team
