C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
February 29, 2016Feb 29, 201602/29/16Do you develop cross-platform C++ applications or libraries? In this short survey, the Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current edit-build-debug experience.
This survey will help us understand your needs and preferences when doing C++ development using CMake (or any other cross-platform tools).
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February 24, 2016Feb 24, 201602/24/16⏱ Updated on March 11, 2019 with the latest functionality in Visual Studio 2017
Are you currently developing your C++ projects in an older version of Visual Studio? If your reasons for avoiding the all-new features in VS 2017 are covered next,
February 22, 2016Feb 22, 201602/22/16The Microsoft C/C++ compiler has evolved along with DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32/64-bit Windows. Its support for different characters sets, code pages, and Unicode has also changed during this time. This post will explain how our compiler has worked in the past and also cover some new switches provided by the C/C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP,
February 16, 2016Feb 16, 201602/16/16Updated 22 Apr 2016: The NuGet package is now being uploaded daily. The payload doesn’t change every day but you should see new bug fixes and/or feature updates every five days or so. See the blog post announcement here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/04/26/stay-up-to-date-with-the-visual-c-tools-on-nuget.
Last November we announced a prerelease of the Visual C++ Build Tools,
February 12, 2016Feb 12, 201602/12/16Or have you worked on a game recently?
If so, please share some details about your experience. The Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current game development experience. The survey should take less than ~10 minutes.
February 12, 2016Feb 12, 201602/12/16This post details how to enable the feature in VS2015 Update 2. The recommended way of getting this feature is now to install VS2015 Update 3 which supports it by default.
In Visual Studio 2012 the native debugger significantly improved with the addition of native visualizers (natvis) as part of a major debug engine overhaul.
February 11, 2016Feb 11, 201602/11/16The C++ compiler team is excited for you to try out the compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP 1. Since Update 1 we’ve made progress on being Standards-conformant for lot of C++11 and C++14 features. One particularly big milestone is that our standard library in Update 2 supports every C++ Standard Library feature that’s been voted into C++11,
February 8, 2016Feb 8, 201602/8/16Background
We have all used the Visual Studio Debugger to step through code, in the hunt for bugs. For C or C++ code, that Debugger relies upon a file, with the extension “.pdb”, called the “Program DataBase”, or simply “the PDB”.
February 8, 2016Feb 8, 201602/8/16Background
We have all used the Visual Studio Debugger to step through code, in the hunt for bugs. For C or C++ code, that Debugger relies upon a file, with the extension “.pdb”, called the “Program DataBase”, or simply “the PDB”.
February 1, 2016Feb 1, 201602/1/16The Visual C++ Team team would like to learn more about your source code management experiences across development tools, languages (especially C/C++), target platforms and project types. Please take a few minutes (~10) to fill out our brief survey http://www.instant.ly/s/wJqxc.
The last question is an opt-in to share more details of your experiences with the C++ team.
