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February 2017 - C++ Team Blog

Happy 25th Birthday MFC!

February 27, 2017 Feb 27, 2017 02/27/17
Marian Luparu
February 26th marks the 25th anniversary for the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Join us in wishing MFC a big Happy Birthday! (image) MFC saw the light of day on February 26th 1992 and it has been a very large part of the Microsoft C++ legacy ever since. While Visual C++ 1.0 would only ship one year later (with MFC 2.0), in 1992 MFC 1.0...

Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL

February 22, 2017 Feb 22, 2017 02/22/17
Andrew Pardoe
点这里看中文版 Concepts promise to fundamentally change how we write templated C++ code. They're in a Technical Specification (TS) right now, but, like Coroutines, Modules, and Ranges, it's good to get a head start on learning these important features before they make it into the C++ Standard. You can already use Visual Studio 2017 for...

Continuous Integration for C++ with Visual Studio Team Services

February 17, 2017 Feb 17, 2017 02/17/17
BryanDiLaura
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is an easy way to help your team manage code and stay connected when developing. VSTS supports continuous integration using a shared code repository that everyone on the team uses to check in code changes. Every time any code is checked in, it is fully integrated by running a full automated build. By ...

Vcpkg recent enhancements

February 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017 02/14/17
EricMittelette
Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. Since our first release we have continually improved the tool by fixing issues and adding features. The latest version of the tool is 0.0.71, here is a summary of the changes in this version:See the Change Log file for more detailed description: https://github.com/...

Targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Marc Goodner
Update Jan. 8, 2020: Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 and later has native support for WSL. This eliminates the need to establish an SSH connection and is the recommended workflow for building and debugging on WSL. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first introduced at Build in 2016 and was delivered as an early beta in Windows 10 ...

STL Fixes In VS 2017 RTM

February 6, 2017 Feb 6, 2017 02/6/17
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
VS 2017 RTM will be released soon. VS 2017 RC is available now and contains all of the changes described here - please try it out and send feedback through the IDE's Help > Send Feedback > Report A Problem (or Provide A Suggestion). This is the third and final post for what's changed in the STL between VS 2015 Update 3 and VS 2017 RTM...

Using C++ Resumable Functions with Libuv

February 2, 2017 Feb 2, 2017 02/2/17
Jim Springfield
Previously on this blog we have talked about Resumable Functions, and even recently we touched on the renaming of the yield keyword to co_yield in our implementation in Visual Studio 2017. I am very excited about this potential C++ standards feature, so in this blog post I wanted to share with you a real world use of it by adapting it to the ...