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The 2023.04.15 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from February 25th, 2023 to April 15th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period: Notable Changes vcpkg now included with Visual Studio ...
C++23's new facilities for handling disappointments without exceptions.
Note: This post was co-authored with Incredibuild's Director of Product Marketing, Yohai West. We are pleased to announce that Visual Studio version 17.6 Preview 3 includes Incredibuild's most advanced developer acceleration platform: Incredibuild 10. This release includes several notable, new features that empower teams to speed up the developm...
New fold algorithms in C++23, what they do, how to use them.
Introduction Since our announcement last month, the team has been working hard on building a new round of Unreal Engine integrations. Today, we are happy to show you the next set of features that can level up your game development productivity. In this article, you will learn about how to stream Unreal Logs, see Unreal Header Tool warnings in ...
We are excited to announce that Create C++ Member Function can now be used to quickly add constructor and equality operator (operator ==) in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2. When you have a class with fields, you can add a default constructor, constructor with all fields, equality operator, and equality operator with all fields easily. Three do...
The 2023.02.24 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from January 10th, 2023 to February 24th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period: Notable Changes Notable changes for this release are...
The standard library now checks for more incorrect usage using the ASan "container overflow" feature in `std::string`.
Code Analysis Improvements in VS 17.6
