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November 25, 2014Nov 25, 201411/25/14We want you to take another survey.
Many of you continue to participate in our surveys and opt-in for one-on-one conversations about your development habits. Your feedback helps us better understand the peculiarities of cross-platform development and the challenges of specific platforms when it comes to C++.
November 21, 2014Nov 21, 201411/21/14In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and also in the earlier CTP releases of Visual Studio 2015, we released a memory diagnostic tool that allowed developers to take heap snapshots of their application and then examine the heap contents upon terminating their application.
November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14As you know, through CTPs and Preview releases, we have been trying to make the Visual C++ compiler bits available more frequently. In the same line, we have now decided to provide a view into the live development branch for the Visual C++ compiler through the website http://rise4fun.com/vcpp.
November 17, 2014Nov 17, 201411/17/14Visual Studio 2015 Preview is now available, so here’s an updated feature table for the Core Language:
C++11 Core Language Features
VS 2013
VS 2015 Preview
Notes
Rvalue references
Partial
Yes
ref-qualifiers
No
Yes
Non-static data member initializers
Partial
Partial
[1]
Variadic templates
Yes
Yes
November 14, 2014Nov 14, 201411/14/14Hello C++ World!
Update (1/6/2015): Check out all these features in action — as well as how they’ve been improved since Preview — in this video!
With Wednesday’s release of Visual Studio 2015 Preview, we are pleased to present you with new and improved coding productivity features,
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Today with the Visual Studio 2015 Preview, one of the big things we’ve done is improved the C++ experience, adding support for targeting Android, boosting runtime and build-time performance, improving standards compliance, and improving the editor experience. The Preview is available here for download and as a VM that you can run in Azure (if you’re an MSDN subscriber,
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14When you read our release notes, you’ll notice that we’ve added a large number of C++ language features. The details of what these features are can be found all over the web, but what purpose they serve might still be nebulous.
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Overview
One of the major focus areas for Visual C++ lately has been improving developer productivity. Keeping this in mind a plethora of improvements have been introduced with Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) aimed at the developer incremental scenario. The developer incremental scenario is one where a developer changes a single or multiple source files (while fixing bugs) and builds.
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Through this blog post we wanted to inform you that C++ apps in Visual Studio 2015 Preview will be able to target Windows 8.1 Store and Phone development along with Windows 8.0 Phone development. Everything mentioned below is relevant only for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Overview
Modern application customers are demanding applications be available for multiple device platforms (such as Windows, Android and iOS). Today there exist multiple approaches in writing applications which target these device platforms. One approach is to simply create multiple versions of the application in different source trees-in other words a Windows specific version,
