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Oct 29, 2013
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The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration

Ankit Asthana
Ankit Asthana

The time spent in the link phase could be a significant portion of an applications overall build time for most large projects. A user can quickly determine this by adding the '/time' flag to the linker command line. The 'Final: Total time' reports the total time spent in the link phase. There are essentially two primary scenarios to consider when l...

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Oct 28, 2013
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Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project

Eric Battalio
Eric Battalio

For the latest information on Version 2.0, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/01/15/creating-a-c-project-from-a-pdb-file-pdb-project-version-2.0.aspx.

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Oct 22, 2013
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The *New Performance Optimization Tool* for Visual C++ applications

Ankit Asthana
Ankit Asthana

Introduction As a part of the VS2013 preview release the 'Performance and Diagnostics Hub' was introduced. The Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) tool is a new performance optimization tool  that integrates with 'Performance and Diagnostic Hub'. The tool is not a part of the out of the box install of Visual Studio 2013 but can be downloaded and in...

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Oct 17, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!

Eric Battalio
Eric Battalio

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available. And now—in no particular order—here are the top reasons why C++ developers want Visual Studio 2013:Better C++ language conformance. Support for C++11 began in Visual Studio 2010, which included auto and lambda functions. In Visual Studio 2012, we implemented more ...

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