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Improve Parallelism in MSBuild

January 29, 2020 Jan 29, 2020 01/29/20

Felix Huang

Starting in Visual Studio 2019 16.3, we have been adding features to improve build parallelism.

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Versions 16.3 and 16.4

January 28, 2020 Jan 28, 2020 01/28/20

Kevin Cadieux

Versions 16.3 and 16.4 of Visual Studio 2019 brought many new improvements in code generation quality, build throughput, and security. If you still haven’t downloaded your copy, here is a brief overview of what you’ve been missing out on. (image) Demonstration of C++ Build Insights, a new set of build analysis tools in Visual Studio...

CMake, Linux targeting, and IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2

January 24, 2020 Jan 24, 2020 01/24/20

Erika Sweet

Visual Studio’s native support for CMake allows you to target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 introduces several new features specific to cross-platform development, including: File copy optimizations for CMake projects targeting a remote ...

C++ Modules conformance improvements with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 16.5

January 22, 2020 Jan 22, 2020 01/22/20

Cameron DaCamara

C++20 is right around the corner. Along with the new standard comes the much anticipated Modules feature! The compiler team initially announced that we were working on the Modules TS back in 2017 and since then we have been hard at work improving the feature and improving compiler conformance around this feature. We finally feel it is time to ...

Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

January 10, 2020 Jan 10, 2020 01/10/20

Erika Sweet

This blog post was written by Paul Maybee, a Principal Software Engineer on the C++ Cross-Platform Team. Accurate C++ IntelliSense requires access to the C++ headers that are referenced by C++ source files. For Linux scenarios the headers referenced by a Linux MSBuild or CMake project are copied to Windows by Visual Studio from the Linux ...

C++ Inliner Improvements: The Zipliner

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20

David Hartglass

Visual Studio 2019 versions 16.3 and 16.4 include improvements to the C++ inliner. Among these is the ability to inline some routines after they have been optimized, referred to as the “Zipliner.” Depending on your application, you may see some minor code quality improvements and/or major build-time (compiler throughput) improvements. ...

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