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Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio

October 26, 2016 Oct 26, 2016 10/26/16

In 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). These recommendations are a result of investigating build issues across ...

Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code

October 24, 2016 Oct 24, 2016 10/24/16

Julia Reid

Did you know that you can build and debug C++ projects in Visual Studio Code with your compiler and debugger of choice? Although VS Code is a light-weight editor, you can set it up to resemble a full IDE, customizing IntelliSense, build, and debug configurations for your environment. There are two recommended approaches for ...

CppRestSDK 2.9.0 is available on GitHub

October 21, 2016 Oct 21, 2016 10/21/16

EricMittelette

We 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. This project ...

C++/WinRT Available on GitHub

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16

Eric Battalio

C++/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. It allows you to both author and consume Windows ...

C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS 2017

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16

Andrew Pardoe

Visual 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. You can configure Code Analysis in the ...

C++14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 5

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT

Visual 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, IDE version, and C++ compiler version.) Preview 5 adds support for C++14 extended ...

Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio 2017

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16

Andrew Pardoe

点这里看中文版 This post was written by Andrew Pardoe, Mark Levine, and Iyyappa Murugandi. Thank you for your feedback! We've made some changes to the layouts based on your feedback. 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 ...

Faster C++ build cycle in VS 2017 with /Debug:fastlink

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16

Ankit Asthana

Continuing 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. The time spent in these builds is almost equal to the...

Faster C++ solution load with VS 2017

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16

Ankit Asthana

The 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. This new IDE used COM everywhere and items in the Solution Explorer were based on IVsHierarchy. Much of the ...

Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 Now Available

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16

Eric Battalio

Visual 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. Enhanced support for C++11 and C++14 ...

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