Visual Studio 2015 and Graphics Tools for Windows 10

Rudolph BalazMarch 31, 2015Mar 31, 201503/31/15

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 graphic

Visual C++ Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview

Raman SharmaMarch 26, 2015Mar 26, 201503/26/15

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 wi

Introducing the Universal CRT

James McNellisMarch 3, 2015Mar 3, 201503/3/15

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 Stu