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The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring

June 10, 2014 Jun 10, 2014 06/10/14
James McNellis
(This is the first of two articles on changes to the C Runtime (CRT) in the Visual Studio "14" CTP. This article discusses the major architectural changes to the libraries; the second article will enumerate the new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes.)For the past seven releases of Visual Studio (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and ...

Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 4, 2014 Jun 4, 2014 06/4/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the ...

Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 4, 2014 Jun 4, 2014 06/4/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the ...

Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Eric Battalio
Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog. Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an updated conformance roadmap.Pause. Cool, huh?Here are the improvements for Visual C++: To view the entire ...

Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Eric Battalio
Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog. Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an updated conformance roadmap.Pause. Cool, huh?Here are the improvements for Visual C++: To view the entire ...

Survey Says…one more bump!

June 2, 2014 Jun 2, 2014 06/2/14
Eric Battalio
Some developers just like you have already taken one (or both) of our active surveys. Many have opted in for more engagement, agreeing to be contacted for follow-up questions and for a chance to learn more about your development experiences.Our surveys are still open so you still have a chance to participate: Please consider opting in and ...

Solution Dependency Viewer extension

May 29, 2014 May 29, 2014 05/29/14
Visual CPP Team
Hello, In my previous blog, I introduced PDBProject Extension VS2103 as an alternative way to leverage the IDE features.  In this post, I would like to introduce Solution Dependency Viewer Extension as an easy to understand overview of your solution.  This extension parses each C++, C#, and VB projects in the solution and presents a ...