September 2018

Step Back – Going Back in C++ Time

September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18

Andy Sterland

Step Back for C++ In the most recent, 15.9, update to Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition, we’ve added “Step Back” for C++ developers targeting Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) and later. With this feature, you can now return to a previous state while debugging without having to restart the entire process. It’s installed as part...

Books on C++17

September 25, 2018 Sep 25, 2018 09/25/18

Marian Luparu

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: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today’s post is by Marian Luparu...

Chat with the Visual C++ Team at CppCon 2018

September 19, 2018 Sep 19, 2018 09/19/18

Nick Uhlenhuth

We are super excited to be returning to CppCon in Bellevue this year! We will have a table Monday – Friday where you can meet us and talk with us about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and vcpkg. Additionally, we'd like to invite to you several sessions that folks from our team will be presenting this year: Monday, September 24th 14:...

STL Features and Fixes in VS 2017 15.8

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

Billy O'Neal

15.7 was our first feature complete C++17 library (except floating-point <charconv>), and in 15.8 we have addressed large numbers of outstanding bugs. As usual, we’ve maintained a detailed list of the STL fixes that are available. Visual Studio 2017 15.8 is available at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/. New Features...

Parallel Custom Build Tools in Visual Studio 2017

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

olgaark

Many projects need to use additional tools during their build to generate sources for further compilation or perform other custom build tasks. VC projects have always supported Custom Build Tool integration, but it had some limitations. One of the popular requests on UserVoice is Allow custom build tools to run in parallel. Another problem is ...

Exploring Clang Tooling, Part 0: Building Your Code with Clang

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

Stephen Kelly

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today’s post is by guest author Stephen Kelly...