October 2013 | C++ Team Blog

The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration

Ankit AsthanaOctober 29, 2013Oct 29, 201310/29/13

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 w

Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project

Eric BattalioOctober 28, 2013Oct 28, 201310/28/13

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.

The New Performance Optimization Tool for Visual C++ applications

Ankit AsthanaOctober 22, 2013Oct 22, 201310/22/13

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 dow

Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!

Eric BattalioOctober 17, 2013Oct 17, 201310/17/13

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

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October 2013 | C++ Team Blog

The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration

Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project

The New Performance Optimization Tool for Visual C++ applications

Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!

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