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November 2018 - C++ Team Blog

Exploring Clang Tooling – Using Build Tools with clang-tidy

November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 11/27/18
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, ...

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

November 26, 2018 Nov 26, 2018 11/26/18
Marc Goodner
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

November 20, 2018 Nov 20, 2018 11/20/18
Herb Sutter
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

November 7, 2018 Nov 7, 2018 11/7/18
Casey Carter
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 ...