VC9 (Visual C++ 2008) Tips

• Set compilation parallelism
  • Tools - Options - Build and Run maximum number of paralle project builds
• Don't preload a specific dll before main.
  • If you want to control to load a specific dll, for example, you want to load some of the dll by LoadLibrary, but you specify the dll in the linker setting.
  • A usecase is: you want to build both 32 and 64bit application, both use a specific dll. Therefore, you know you will link it, but, the path of dlls are different depends on 32 or 64bit. This might not be an elegant way, but, you can delay the dll load.
  • Linker -- Input -- Delay Loaded DLLs. Set the dll you want to delay.
• Turn off the Unicode.
  • Project settings (not solution) -- Character Set -- Not Set