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The latest in C++, Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg from the MSFT C++ team

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2017 Update

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17

Rong Lu

Earlier this month, the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hit another exciting milestone – it has been installed over 1.5 million times since it first shipped in March last year! Thanks to everyone who has sent us feedback to help us make it this far. We will continue to make improvements to the extension based on your feedback. (image...

Using C++ Coroutines with Boost C++ Libraries

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17

Eric Battalio

This article was written by Gor Nishanov. Last month, Jim Springfield wrote a great article on using C++ Coroutines with Libuv (a multi-platform C library for asynchronous I/O). This month we will look at how to use coroutines with components of Boost C++ libraries, namely boost::future and boost::asio. Getting Boost If you already have ...

Unit Testing and the Future: Announcing the Test Adapter for Google Test

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Augustin Popa

The Visual C++ team is always looking for ways to improve the Visual Studio experience for C++ developers, regardless of their preferred development workflow. This time the focus is on unit testing. While Visual Studio has shipped with a native C++ test framework for a number of releases along with testing tools in the IDE, we recognize that ...

Linux C++ improvements for cross-platform code sharing and type visualization

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Marc Goodner

In Visual Studio 2017 we introduced the Linux development with C++ workload. This tutorial is going to walk through some of the improvements we have made in the 15.2 release using the classic spinning cube demo from Julien Guertault’s OpenGL tutorial. We have shown how to use this OpenGL demo in our Linux workload before. What we are showing...

C++17 Features In Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT

CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 Preview

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Will Buik

We are excited to announce the first preview release of Visual Studio 2017 15.3 update in conjunction with our Build 2017 conference! This preview includes two new features of interest to developers utilizing CMake. Support for the CMake Ninja generator and CMake CTest integration in the IDE. Please download the preview and try out the ...

C++ at Microsoft Build 2017

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Eric Battalio

The C++ team is at Build this week. Here are some of the highlights for C++ developers (and since there is a live stream and videos, you do not have to miss everything): We hope to see you there...

Using C++ Modules in Visual Studio 2017

May 5, 2017 May 5, 2017 05/5/17

Andrew Pardoe

点这里看中文版 This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis, Andrew Pardoe, and Billy O’Neal What Is New? The Visual C++ Team is elated to announce that with Visual Studio 2017, it has substantially improved the quality of the C++ Modules TS implementation in Visual Studio, in addition to introducing ability to consume the C++ ...

Why am I getting these _SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS messages?

May 5, 2017 May 5, 2017 05/5/17

Eric Battalio

Recently, a C++ developer asked why they were getting diagnostic messages for this code: [code lang="cpp"] void example(char const * const src, char * const dest) { std::copy(src, src + 42, dest); } If you compile this file in debug mode, you'll get a message like the following:xutility(2350,1): warning C4996: 'std::copy::...

Vcpkg: introducing export command

May 3, 2017 May 3, 2017 05/3/17

EricMittelette

Vcpkg helps you acquire and build open source libraries on Windows. Since September 2016, the community added more than 200 libraries in the vcpkg catalog and has been contributing actively to the code itself. Vcpkg now supports Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 and can target dynamic or static libraries and platforms like x64, x86 or ...

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