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August 2021 - C++ Team Blog

ARM64EC Support in Visual Studio

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21
Moyo Okeremi
ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”) is a new application binary interface for building apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With ARM64EC, you can build new native apps that can run on ARM or incrementally transition existing x64 apps to native performance on ARM. With Visual Studio, you can start building your projects as ARM64EC and enjoy the benefits.

Moving a project to C++ named Modules

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21
Cameron DaCamara
There is a lot of hype (and perhaps restraint) to using modules in projects. The general blocker tends to be build support, but even with good build support there is a distinct lack of useful resources for practices around moving projects to using named modules (not just header units). In this blog we will take a small project I created, ...