October 2018 | C++ Team Blog

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 2: Examining the Clang AST with clang-query

Stephen KellyOctober 23, 2018Oct 23, 201810/23/18

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,

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 1: Extending Clang-Tidy

Stephen KellyOctober 19, 2018Oct 19, 201810/19/18

Standard Library Algorithms: Changes and Additions in C++17

Visual CPP TeamOctober 16, 2018Oct 16, 201810/16/18

Today we have a guest post from Marc Gregoire, Software Architect at Nikon Metrology and Microsoft MVP since 2007. The C++14 standard already contains a wealth of different kinds of algorithms. C++17 adds a couple more algorithms and updates some existing ones. This article explains what’s new and what has changed in the C++17 Sta

How to Use Class Template Argument Deduction

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFTOctober 11, 2018Oct 11, 201810/11/18

Class Template Argument Deduction (CTAD) is a C++17 Core Language feature that reduces code verbosity. C++17's Standard Library also supports CTAD, so after upgrading your toolset, you can take advantage of this new feature when using STL types like std::pair and std::vector. Class templates in other libraries and your own code will partially

std::any: How, when, and why

Casey CarterOctober 4, 2018Oct 4, 201810/4/18

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 Casey Carter.

CUDA 10 is now available, with support for the latest Visual Studio 2017 versions

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]October 1, 2018Oct 1, 201810/1/18

We are pleased to echo NVIDIA announcement for CUDA 10 today, and particularly excited about CUDA 10.0's Visual Studio compatibility. CUDA 10.0 will work with all the past and future updates of Visual Studio 2017. To stay committed to our promise for a Pain-free upgrade to any version of Visual Studio 2017, we partnered closely with NVIDIA for

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