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October 26, 2016Oct 26, 201610/26/16In this blog, I will discuss features, techniques and tools you can use to reduce build time for C++ projects. The primary focus of this post is to improve developer build time for the Debug Configuration as a part of your Edit/Build/Debug cycle (inner development loop).
October 24, 2016Oct 24, 201610/24/16Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of requests with respect to adding capability to Visual Studio Code to allow developers to build their C/C++ application. The task extensibility in Visual Studio Code exists to automate tasks like building,
October 21, 2016Oct 21, 201610/21/16We are delighted to announce a new version of CppRestSDK (Casablanca) 2.9.0, this new version available on GitHub introduces new features and fixes issues reported on the 2.8.0 version. The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design.
October 13, 2016Oct 13, 201610/13/16C++/WinRT is now available on GitHub. This is the future of the Modern C++ project and the first public preview coming officially from Microsoft.
https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt
C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime implemented solely in header files.
October 12, 2016Oct 12, 201610/12/16Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 now includes the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers. This means you no longer have to install the C++ Core Check package from NuGet to check your code against rules and profiles in the C++ Core Guidelines. Just configure Code Analysis to include the C++ Core Check extensions.
October 11, 2016Oct 11, 201610/11/16Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is now available. (As our previous changelog explained, VS “15” is an IDE version number, not a year. It’s the next major version after VS 2015, which was IDE version 14. VS has different numbers for its year branding,
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Update Dec 8 2016 Finding the location of a VC++ install: Some folks have asked about how to find instances of Visual C++ on a developer’s machine.
October 5, 2016Oct 5, 201610/5/16Continuing with our goal of further improving developer productivity with Visual Studio 2017 there have been major investments made for also improving incremental developer builds. The developer incremental build is one where a developer changes a single or multiple source files and builds.
October 5, 2016Oct 5, 201610/5/16The Visual C++ product has had projects ever since its inception. Visual C++ had its own IDE up through Visual Studio 6. Starting in Visual Studio .NET, C++ moved to a new IDE shared by Visual Basic, C#, C++, and other tools.
October 5, 2016Oct 5, 201610/5/16Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is now available. Read the official announcement on the Visual Studio blog.
Highlights for C++ developers include:
Faster project load, coding, and debugging for C++.
The C++ Core Checkers for enforcing the C++ Core Guidelines are now distributed with Visual Studio.
