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January 2019 - C++ Team Blog

New Code Analysis Checks in Visual Studio 2019: use-after-move and coroutine

January 28, 2019 Jan 28, 2019 01/28/19
Sunny Chatterjee
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is an exciting release for the C++ code analysis team. In this release, we shipped a new set of experimental rules that help you catch bugs in your codebase, namely: use-after-move and coroutine checks. This article provides an overview of the new rules and how you can enable them in your project. Use-after-move ...

Concurrency Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2019

January 28, 2019 Jan 28, 2019 01/28/19
Sunny Chatterjee
Concurrency Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2019 The battle against concurrency bugs poses a serious challenge to C++ developers. The problem is exacerbated by the advent of multi-core and many-core architectures. To cope with the increasing complexity of multithreaded software, it is essential to employ better tools and processes to help ...

Introducing the New CMake Project Settings UI

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Erika Sweet
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 introduces a new CMake Project Settings Editor to help you more easily configure your CMake projects in Visual Studio. The editor provides an alternative to modifying the CMakeSettings.json file directly and allows you to create and manage your CMake configurations. If you’re just getting started with CMake in...

In-editor code analysis in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
eli fessler
The C++ team has been working to refresh the Code Analysis experience inside Visual Studio. Last year, we blogged about some in-progress features in this area. We’re happy to announce that in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, we’ve integrated code analysis directly into the editor, improved upon previously experimental features, and enabled ...

Template IntelliSense Improvements for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Nick Uhlenhuth
In the first version of Template IntelliSense, we introduced the Template Bar which allowed you to provide sample arguments for your template in order to get a richer IntelliSense experience within the template body. Since then, we’ve received a lot of great feedback and suggestions which have led to significant improvements. Our latest ...

Lifetime Profile Update in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Kyle Reed
The C++ Core Guidelines' Lifetime Profile, which is part of the C++ Core Guidelines, aims to detect lifetime problems, like dangling pointers and references, in C++ code. It uses the type information already present in the source along with some simple contracts between functions to detect defects at compile time with minimal annotation. ...