July 2017 | C++ Team Blog

Trip report: Evolution Working Group at the Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Toronto)

Andrew PardoeJuly 28, 2017Jul 28, 201707/28/17

点这里看中文版 The Summer 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting was held in July 10-15 at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to Google, Codeplay, and IBM for sponsoring the event, as well to folks from Mozilla, Collège Lionel-Groulx, Christie Digital Systems, and Apple for helping to organize. And, of course, we very much ...

Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

Yuriy SolodkyyJuly 21, 2017Jul 21, 201707/21/17

This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a number of improvements to the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler's diagnostics. Most of these improvements are in response to the diagnostics ...

Using MinGW and Cygwin with Visual C++ and Open Folder

Will BuikJuly 19, 2017Jul 19, 201707/19/17

Building cross-platform C and C++ code is easier than ever with Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 4. The latest preview improves support for alternative compilers and build environments such as MinGW and Cygwin. MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows), in case you are not familiar with it, is a compiler in the GCC family designed to run natively on ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new IntelliSense!

Rong LuJuly 18, 2017Jul 18, 201707/18/17

2 million downloads! This is very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension, considering it was just 4 months ago when we hit the 1 million milestone! Today we are shipping the July 2017 update to the extension. Besides several bug fixes, we are continuing to polish the new IntelliSense experience that we shipped last month. This ...

Precompiled Header (PCH) issues and recommendations

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]July 13, 2017Jul 13, 201707/13/17

This post written by Mark Hall, Xiang Fan, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe. Precompiled headers can reduce your compilation times significantly. They’ve worked reliably for millions of developers since they were introduced 25 years ago to speed up builds of MFC apps. Precompiled headers are widely used: they are ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Supports Intel® AVX-512

Eric BattalioJuly 11, 2017Jul 11, 201707/11/17

For this post we welcome John Morgan from Intel Corporation as guest author on the Visual Studio Blog. John has been with Intel for nine years, but his contributions to the Microsoft compiler stretch back through two decades and three other companies. He gratefully acknowledges help with this post from others at Intel and Microsoft. This post...

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