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August 29, 2013Aug 29, 201308/29/13C++ REST SDK 1.2.0 has been released on CodePlex. This version of the C++ REST SDK includes the following:
Support for HTTPS for the Linux version of the library
Client side features for Windows XP
Performance improvements, especially JSON parsing
Ability for side-by-side installation with v1.1.0
As always,
August 28, 2013Aug 28, 201308/28/13Optimized Debugging or in other words the ability to debug optimized code has come across as an important feature request in previous surveys.
As we start planning for the next version of Visual Studio we would like to better understand the experience that Visual Studio provides today.
August 26, 2013Aug 26, 201308/26/13Hello, my name is Rong Lu. I’m a PM on Visual C++ team working on graphics development features in VS, including asset designers, templates, graphics diagnostics, etc.. In preparation for planning for graphics tooling capabilities in the next version of Visual Studio,
August 23, 2013Aug 23, 201308/23/13When we considered what features to add to the C++ IDE in Visual Studio 2013, we decided to focus on improving the C++ code editing experience. We’ve added a number of features that will help you write and format your code more quickly,
August 20, 2013Aug 20, 201308/20/13Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I would like to share with you the changes that we’ve made in ATL and MFC for Visual Studio 2013.
One of the major changes we made was to eliminate the ATL DLL altogether.
August 9, 2013Aug 9, 201308/9/13
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.
This post examines the optimization called Dead-Code-Elimination, which I’ll abbreviate to DCE. It does what it says: discards any calculations whose results are not actually used by the program.
August 5, 2013Aug 5, 201308/5/13My name is Li Shao. I am a Senior Software Design Engineer in Test on the VC++ team. In this blog, I would like to share the performance enhancements we’ve made in VS 2013 Preview to improve the C++ IDE and build system.
