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April 18, 2016Apr 18, 201604/18/16There are three main ways to depend on and deploy the Visual C++ libraries and the Universal CRT:
You can depend on the Visual C++ libraries and Universal CRT DLLs and deploy those DLLs centrally using the redistributables (the VCRedist, MSMs,
April 15, 2016Apr 15, 201604/15/16Would like to thank all who have tried out the C/C++ extension in Visual Studio Code and have already provided rich feedback on their experiences, filed issues with us. Pairing with the Visual Studio Code 1.0 announcement we are also updating the C/C++ extension today in VSCode with the following improvements based upon the feedback that we have heard so far:
Code Editing
There have been multiple fixes made which will now improve the experience for providing the additional,
April 6, 2016Apr 6, 201604/6/16The Visual C++ team has shipped three releases of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (Clang/C2). We’ve got a solid pre-production compiler that passes all of our STL tests and compiles a bunch of code into native Windows binaries. We’ve about to move to the 3.8 release of clang.
April 6, 2016Apr 6, 201604/6/16Hello C++ World!
Our C++ Quick Fixes extension has gotten some pretty good initial feedback since we released it a few months ago. I wanted take some time to make sure that you are
1. aware of its benefits
2. giving us feedback on current features,
April 4, 2016Apr 4, 201604/4/16The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) introduced many async APIs; there are now almost 1700 of them. In fact, the team switched every API that could take 50ms or more to complete to async mode.
Coding with the async pattern is not an easy task,
April 1, 2016Apr 1, 201604/1/16Recently at the //build conference, we announced a preview of a new installation experience for Visual Studio that gives you a more focused subset of the tools you need, and minimizes the impact to your machine. In this new installer (which is separate from the full Visual Studio “15” Preview),
