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New in VS 2015: /Zc:throwingNew

The C++  Standard defines operator new as failing by throwing an exception – not returning null. And indeed, this is the behavior in VC++, and has been for a number of releases. But it hasn’t always been this way. Back in Visual Studio 6.0, the compiler returned null on an allocation failure. Starting in VS 2002 we switched ...
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Introducing Visual Studio’s Eclipse Android Project Importer

Hello everyone! I am Stephanie Su, a Program Manager Intern from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  The project that I have been working on this summer with Brett Gutstein, a Software Engineer Intern from Rice University, is now available on VS Gallery! The Eclipse Android Project Import extension is available for download for Visual ...
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