C++ Team Blog

Visual Studio 2015 and Graphics Tools for Windows 10

March 31, 2015 Mar 31, 2015 03/31/15

Rudolph Balaz

In Visual Studio 2012, we introduced Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics for Direct3D. Since then, with every update and release of Visual Studio and every monthly preview release we have continued our commitment to improve and deliver great new features in these Direct3D graphics tools. I recently had the opportunity to demonstrate the ...

Visual C++ Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview

March 26, 2015 Mar 26, 2015 03/26/15

Raman Sharma

Earlier this week we announced the availability of the first preview of the Visual Studio 2015 tools for building Windows 10 applications. C++ continues to be an important language for building Windows apps and in this blog post, we want to highlight some C++ specific functionality for Windows 10 app development. Windows universal apps You ...

Introducing the Universal CRT

March 3, 2015 Mar 3, 2015 03/3/15

James McNellis

In June of last year we published a pair of articles discussing the major changes that we had made to the Visual C++ C Runtime (CRT) for Visual Studio 2015. In "The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring" we explained the major architectural changes that we had made to the CRT. In "C Runtime (CRT) Features, Fixes, and Breaking Changes in Visual ...