August 2018 | C++ Team Blog

Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]August 30, 2018Aug 30, 201808/30/18

We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have jointly agreed to provide a version of Boost.Hana in vcpkg to promote usage of the library among more C++ users from the Visual C++ community. We've...

Q&A: How to specialize std::sort by binding the comparison function

Herb SutterAugust 29, 2018Aug 29, 201808/29/18

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: Visual C++, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today's Q&A is by Herb Sutter. ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension August 2018 Update

Rong LuAugust 23, 2018Aug 23, 201808/23/18

Late last week we shipped the August 2018 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update included support for “Just My Code” symbol search, a gcc-x64 option in the intelliSenseMode setting, and many bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes in the release notes. “Just My Code” symbol search Keyboard shortcut...

std::string_view: The Duct Tape of String Types

Billy O'NealAugust 21, 2018Aug 21, 201808/21/18

Visual Studio 2017 contains support for std::string_view, a type added in C++17 to serve some of the roles previously served by const char * and const std::string& parameters. string_view is neither a "better const std::string&", nor "better const char *"; it is neither a superset or subset of either. std::string_view is intended to be...

C++ development with Docker containers in Visual Studio Code

Rong LuAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

Containers allow developers to package up an application with all the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one image. This is especially useful for C++ cross-platform development – with containers you can choose to target a platform that runs on a completely different operating system than your ...

Using MSVC in a Docker Container for Your C++ Projects

Marc GoodnerAugust 13, 2018Aug 13, 201808/13/18

Containers encapsulate the runtime environment of an application: the file system, environment settings, and virtualized OS are bundled into a package. Docker containers have changed the way we think about build and test environments since they were introduced five years ago. Visual Studio’s setup and install expert, Heath Stewart, blogs ...

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