December 2015 | C++ Team Blog

Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio

Ion TodirelDecember 15, 2015Dec 15, 201512/15/15

CMake is a cross-platform project generator that enables reuse of shared C++ code across multiple IDE and project systems. We made a change to CMake to support our Android toolchain in Visual Studio. With this change, you can take your existing CMake project targetting Android, and with minimal modifications, you can have it open in Visual ...

Did You See: Improve Your Build Times With IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015

Eric BattalioDecember 11, 2015Dec 11, 201512/11/15

Did you see this post Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 on the Visual Studio blog?IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and other development processes to execute in parallel over a distributed network. It works locally on your development box and over a build ...

Using Visual Studio 2015 to debug an Android app built with Marmalade

Marian LuparuDecember 7, 2015Dec 7, 201512/7/15

For this blog post, we welcome Alex Baude of Marmalade (https://www.madewithmarmalade.com) as a guest author on our blog. His team’s most recent release of Marmalade Platform now supports Visual Studio 2015 and we invited him to tell us more about their work on this. Visual Studio 2015 provides new cross-platform native development ...

STL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 1

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFTDecember 7, 2015Dec 7, 201512/7/15

VS 2015 Update 1 is now available, and it contains numerous STL fixes. (This is the first time since 2010 SP1 that we've shipped STL fixes outside of a major version. Nothing was severely broken in 2015 RTM - we're just trying to deliver fixes to you faster, and our internal processes are making this easier.) As usual, I've ...

Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1

Andrew PardoeDecember 4, 2015Dec 4, 201512/4/15

C++ Core Guidelines Checkers available for VS 2015 Update 1

Andrew PardoeDecember 3, 2015Dec 3, 201512/3/15

[This post was written by Andrew Pardoe and Neil MacIntosh] Update: The CppCoreCheck tools are now part of VS 2017: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/10/12/cppcorecheck. Back in September at CppCon 2015 Neil announced that we would be shipping new code analysis tools for C++ that would enforce some of the rules in the C++ Core ...

C++ Modules in VS 2015 Update 1

Andrew PardoeDecember 3, 2015Dec 3, 201512/3/15

点这里看中文版 [This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis and Andrew Pardoe] Update: See this post on using the Standard Library via modules in MSVC. The VC++ team is excited to preview a new feature in VS 2015 Update 1: The first experimental implementation of A Module System for C++, proposed for C++17. That proposal was approved by ...

Partial Support for Expression SFINAE in VS 2015 Update 1

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]December 2, 2015Dec 2, 201512/2/15

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we added partial support for C++11 core language feature Expression SFINAE. What is SFINAE? SFINAE is an acronym for ‘Substitution Failure Is Not An Error’. The idea is that when the compiler tries to specialize a function template during overload resolution, it is ok if the specialization fails as ...

Constexpr in VS2015 Update 1

Cody Miller [MSFT]December 2, 2015Dec 2, 201512/2/15

Visual Studio 2015 RTM shipped with support for constant expressions as specified in the C++11 language standard. The release received lots of excellent feedback from our users and the C++ community. Using that feedback, we've been working on refining our implementation for VS 2015 Update 1. Our goal with VS 2015 Update 1 was to finish up the ...

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