C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
July 30, 2013Jul 30, 201307/30/13Introduction:
Hi, I’m Brandon Jacobs, an intern on the Visual C++ Libraries team. For part of my internship, I was tasked with adding new features to Stephan T. Lavavej’s <collection.h>. It was certainly an honor to be one of the few to contribute to <collection.h>.
July 19, 2013Jul 19, 201307/19/13Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the C99 support added to the C run-time library in Visual Studio 2013.
To summarize, we added declarations and implementations for missing functions in the following headers: math.h,
July 11, 2013Jul 11, 201307/11/13Introduction
In VS2013 (download here), we have introduced a new calling convention known as ‘Vector Calling Convention’ but before we go on and introduce the new calling convention let us take a look at the lay of the land today.
There are multiple calling conventions that exist today,
July 10, 2013Jul 10, 201307/10/13C++ REST SDK 1.1.0 has been released on CodePlex.
This version of the C++ REST SDK reintroduces the much anticipated the HTTP Listener library. Developers can now complete their REST story by creating their own server to respond to requests sent by client applications.
July 10, 2013Jul 10, 201307/10/13We released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) as an open source project on CodePlex in Feb 2013. It enables writing modern, asynchronous C++ code that can connect with REST services.
Using the C++ REST SDK, you can create an HTTP client that can connect to HTTP server,
July 8, 2013Jul 8, 201307/8/13April 2017 update
Regarding our work on migration to VC2015 last year, we decided to remove the warning about MBCS deprecation.We hear you and understand that too many “old and large” MFC projects depend on it and it is too costly for large projects to move to Unicode.
July 4, 2013Jul 4, 201307/4/13If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.
This post examines Constant-Folding – one of the simplest optimizations performed by the VC++ compiler. In this optimization, the compiler works out the result of an expression while it is compiling (at “compile-time”),
July 1, 2013Jul 1, 201307/1/13Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 come with improvements for exception reporting in the platform and the debugger which will make it easier for native Windows Store App developers to diagnose errors in their applications. In this post, I’ll discuss a few of those improvements that are available in Visual Studio 2013 and show the differences in the debugging experience between Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.
