Security Patch: New redistributable for VC++
You’ve probably heard about the critical security fixes that Microsoft released recently. This means that whenever you distribute a new build of your product, you must remember to ship the latest version of the VC++ redistributable package with it (VC++ 2005 and 2008). If you don’t, your customers will get endless side-by-side misconfiguration errors.
If you’re like me, you still want to be able to run debug builds on your test machines. As always, you need the Debug CRT for that, which I’m sure you know isn’t part of the redistributable package. Microsoft has documented two ways of installing a debug CRT on test machines:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa985618%28VS.80%29.aspx
I personally use the second approach since I know exactly which files get copied to the target machine and it’s just less intrusive in general.
MN Cup 2009
I apologize for the lack of posts lately, but we’ve got a lot of stuff going on at Echobit these days. I’ve spent most of my time researching and experimenting with the cool new product we’re cooking up at the moment. At this point I can’t really talk too much about it, but expect much more information later this fall.
We entered the MN Cup 2009 earlier this year. It’s a competition for startup companies and their breakthrough ideas. The semifinalists were announced last week and we made it into the next round. We’re extremely excited to be one of the 49 companies that were selected from over a 1000 submissions.
More information to follow as we progress through the competition.