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February 2018 - C++ Team Blog

Arithmetic overflow checks in C++ Core Check

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
Sunny Chatterjee
点这里看中文版 We've improved the C++ Code Analysis toolset with every major compiler update in Visual Studio 2017. Version 15.6, now in Preview, includes a set of arithmetic overflow checks. This article discusses those checks and why you’ll want to enable them in your code. If you’re just getting started with C++ Code Analysis ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension Feb 2018 update

February 20, 2018 Feb 20, 2018 02/20/18
Rong Lu
点这里看中文版 The February 2018 update to the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension is here! In addition to several bug fixes, this update added colorization for inactive code regions, making it easy to read C and C++ code. You can find the full list of changes in the 0.15.0 release notes. Colorization for inactive regions Inactive code...

Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages

February 6, 2018 Feb 6, 2018 02/6/18
EricMittelette
We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015. With Feature Packages you have more control over how you build a library as you can ...