September 2018 | C++ Team Blog

Step Back – Going Back in C++ Time

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

Billy O'Neal September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

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

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

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

Stephen Kelly September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

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...

Using C++17 Parallel Algorithms for Better Performance

Billy O'Neal September 11, 2018 Sep 11, 2018 09/11/18

std::optional: How, when, and why

Casey Carter September 4, 2018 Sep 4, 2018 09/4/18

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