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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 ...

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...

Security Features in MSVC

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17
Andrew Pardoe
Shareable link: https://aka.ms/msvcsecurity 点这里看中文版 Every developer makes mistakes. No matter how careful you are when writing code, you will introduce bugs. And any bug can become a security vulnerability when software that runs in a connected environment or is used long past its initially planned lifespan. Code that isn't ...

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

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17
Greazer
Today we are excited to announce the release of the June 2017 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update enables semantic-aware member list auto-completion and improves the overall default IntelliSense behavior, providing a smoother out-of-box IntelliSense experience. If you haven't tried it before, download VS Code (...

C++ Tutorial: Debugging Overview

June 23, 2017 Jun 23, 2017 06/23/17
Eric Battalio
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial series. In this article, we explore debugging concepts and do some hands-on debugging with Visual Studio 2017. One of the most useful features of an IDE  is the debugger. Under a debugger, you can step through code as it is running, examining the values of variables, structures, program flow, screen output, and ...