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September 26, 2014Sep 26, 201409/26/14Given our strong focus on improving build times of our toolset as a part of the Visual Studio 14 preview we will be changing a few defaults for Visual C++’s debug and release configuration. These changes include making /Zc:inline (remove unreferenced COMDAT) the default for debug and release configurations.
September 26, 2014Sep 26, 201409/26/14Given our strong focus on improving build times of our toolset as a part of the Visual Studio 14 preview we will be changing a few defaults for Visual C++’s debug and release configuration. These changes include making /Zc:inline (remove unreferenced COMDAT) the default for debug and release configurations.
September 22, 2014Sep 22, 201409/22/14You can grab the download here.
If you do not want to click through to the release notes, there are two technology improvements:
Visual Studio now scans or rescans a solution and then updates the database much more quickly for large solutions.
September 8, 2014Sep 8, 201409/8/14This blog post describes C++ AMP remappable shader feature and the changes that it brings to the compilation/execution model in Visual Studio 2014. This feature improves C++ AMP code compilation speed without affecting runtime performance. We will provide data to show the improvements and cover the steps to utilize this feature.
September 4, 2014Sep 4, 201409/4/14After shipping a number of improvements to Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC, the team has been working to bring you more profiling tools for DirectX applications. In Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP1 that released yesterday (Download here),
September 3, 2014Sep 3, 201409/3/14Hello C++ World!
My name is Gabriel Ha; I’m a program manager on the Visual C++ team, and from everyone who worked to bring the following improvements to you, we are super excited to share the good news and look forward to hearing back on your experience!
September 2, 2014Sep 2, 201409/2/14One of the claims made upon initially announcing C++ AMP was that it would be a portable, extensible standard. Parsing the open specification makes it clear that the design is true to that goal, but we were short of an actual proof.
