November 2018 | C++ Team Blog

Better template support and error detection in C++ Modules with MSVC 2017 version 15.9

Cameron DaCamaraNovember 27, 2018Nov 27, 201811/27/18

Overview It has been a long time since we last talked about C++ Modules. We feel it is time to revisit what has been happening under the hood of MSVC for modules. The Visual C++ Team has been dedicated to pushing conformance to the standard with a focus on making the overall compiler implementation more robust and correct with the ...

Exploring Clang Tooling – Using Build Tools with clang-tidy

Stephen KellyNovember 27, 2018Nov 27, 201811/27/18

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 Visual Studio for Cross Platform C++ Development Targeting Windows and Linux

Marc GoodnerNovember 26, 2018Nov 26, 201811/26/18

A great strength of C++ is the ability to target multiple platforms without sacrificing performance. If you are using the same codebase for multiple targets, then CMake is the most common solution for building your software. You can use Visual Studio for your C++ cross platform development when using CMake without needing to create or generate...

Q&A: Fine-grained friendship

Herb SutterNovember 20, 2018Nov 20, 201811/20/18

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft answers 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. Question Reader...

Use the official range-v3 with MSVC 2017 version 15.9

Casey CarterNovember 7, 2018Nov 7, 201811/7/18

We’re happy to announce that the ongoing conformance work in the MSVC compiler has reached a new milestone: support for Eric Niebler’s range-v3 library. It’s no longer necessary to use the range-v3-vs2015 fork that was introduced for MSVC 2015 Update 3 support; true upstream range-v3 is now usable directly with MSVC 2017. The last ...

Exploring Clang Tooling Part 3: Rewriting Code with clang-tidy

Stephen KellyNovember 6, 2018Nov 6, 201811/6/18

In the previous post in this series, we used clang-query to examine the Abstract Syntax Tree of a simple source code file. Using clang-query, we can prototype an AST Matcher which we can use in a clang-tidy check to refactor code in bulk. This time, we will complete the rewriting of the source code. Let's return to MyFirstCheck.cpp ...

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