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

July 28, 2017 Jul 28, 2017 07/28/17

Andrew Pardoe

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

July 21, 2017 Jul 21, 2017 07/21/17

Yuriy Solodkyy

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

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17

Will Buik

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!

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17

Rong Lu

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

July 13, 2017 Jul 13, 2017 07/13/17

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]

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

July 11, 2017 Jul 11, 2017 07/11/17

Eric Battalio

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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