April 2016 | C++ Team Blog

C-Runtime Deployment: Why choose AppLocal?

Visual CPP TeamApril 18, 2016Apr 18, 201604/18/16

There are three main ways to depend on and deploy the Visual C++ libraries and the Universal CRT: From a performance and maintainability standpoint, depending on the libraries DLLs and centrally deploying them is the preferable option: the centrally deployed DLLs can be “shared” by all of the programs that depend on them...

Update your Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension now!

Ankit AsthanaApril 15, 2016Apr 15, 201604/15/16

Would 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 ...

Clang/C2: We need your advice!

Andrew PardoeApril 6, 2016Apr 6, 201604/6/16

The 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. We're also working on getting x64-hosted tools up and running. Our ...

Be sure to try out the C++ Quick Fixes extension!

Visual CPP TeamApril 6, 2016Apr 6, 201604/6/16

Hello 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, and 3. giving us feedback on what other “Quick Fixes” you’d like to see! The theme ...

Using C++ Coroutines to simplify async UWP code

EricMitteletteApril 4, 2016Apr 4, 201604/4/16

The 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, especially in C++ where you have to create a ppl task and use a continuation (.then) with some ...

Lightweight C++ Installation in Visual Studio “15”

Visual CPP TeamApril 1, 2016Apr 1, 201604/1/16

Recently 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), we’re focusing on laying the groundwork to ...

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