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February 27, 2019Feb 27, 201902/27/19We are pleased to echo NVIDIA’s announcement for CUDA 10.1 today, and are particularly excited about CUDA 10.1’s continued compatibility for Visual Studio. CUDA 10.1 will work with RC, RTW and future updates of Visual Studio 2019. To stay committed to our promise for a Pain-free upgrade to any version of Visual Studio 2017 that also carries forward to Visual Studio 2019,
February 27, 2019Feb 27, 201902/27/19Visual Studio typically manages all the details of CMake for you, under the hood, when you open a project. However, some development workflows require more fine-grained control over how CMake is invoked. The latest Visual Studio 2019 Preview lets you have complete control over CMake if your project needs more flexibility.
February 15, 2019Feb 15, 201902/15/19Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 was a huge release for us, so we’ve written a host of articles to explore the changes in more detail. For the short version, see the Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 Release Notes.
What’s New in CMake
C++ Binary Compatibility and Pain-Free Upgrades
New Code Analysis Checks – use-after move and coroutine
Concurrency Code Analysis
Introducing the New CMake Project Settings UI
In-Editor Code Analysis
Productivity Improvements
Template IntelliSense Improvements
Backend Improvements: New Optimizations,
February 6, 2019Feb 6, 201902/6/19This post builds on using multi-stage containers for C++ development. That post showed how to use a single Dockerfile to describe a build stage and a deployment stage resulting in a container optimized for deployment. It did not show you how to use a containers with your development environment.
February 1, 2019Feb 1, 201902/1/19We have made a bunch of improvements to Visual Studio’s CMake support in the latest preview of the IDE. Many of these changes are taking the first steps to close the gap between working with solutions generated by CMake and the IDE’s native support.
