Andrew Pardoe

MSVC: The best choice for Windows

March 7th, 2017

The C++ product team here at Microsoft offers a great C++ experience in the Visual Studio IDE, the Visual Studio Code editor, and various other tools and services. That includes the topic of this blog post: the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler and libraries toolset (MSVC). Our goal for MSVC is to be the best compiler choice on Windows for ...

C++ Standards Conformance from Microsoft

March 7th, 2017

Since we first shipped Visual Studio 2015 we’ve talked a lot about Microsoft Visual C++ compiler and library (MSVC) conformance improvements in this blog. Our team has been focused on making MSVC the best compiler toolset for your development on Windows, and that starts with fully conforming to the existing C++ Standard. This post will look ...

C++14 conformance improvements: constexpr and aggregate initialization

March 7th, 2017

Two important features in C++11 received small upgrades in C++14 that had far-reaching effects. You can see from the CppReference site that while both of these changes were small changes to the standard (search for the "C++14" annotation on those pages) they had broad impact on the compiler’s implementation and on what code ...

Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL

February 22nd, 2017

点这里看中文版 Concepts promise to fundamentally change how we write templated C++ code. They're in a Technical Specification (TS) right now, but, like Coroutines, Modules, and Ranges, it's good to get a head start on learning these important features before they make it into the C++ Standard. You can already use Visual Studio 2017 for...

Updates to Expression SFINAE in VS 2017 RC

November 16th, 2016

Throughout the VS 2015 cycle we've been focusing on the quality of our expression SFINAE implementation. Because expression SFINAE issues can be subtle and complex we've been using popular libraries such as Boost and Microsoft's fork of Range-v3 to validate our implementation and find remaining bugs. As we shift the compiler team's focus to ...

Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance

November 16th, 2016

This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis, Phil Christensen, and Andrew Pardoe The Visual C++ Team is excited to announce that the compiler in Visual Studio 2017 RC will feature a mode much closer to ISO C++ standards conformance than any time in its history. This represents a major milestone in our journey to full ISO C++ conformance.  The ...

C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS 2017

October 12th, 2016

Visual Studio "15" Preview 5 now includes the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers. This means you no longer have to install the C++ Core Check package from NuGet to check your code against rules and profiles in the C++ Core Guidelines. Just configure Code Analysis to include the C++ Core Check extensions. You can configure Code Analysis in the ...

Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio 2017

October 7th, 2016

点这里看中文版 This post was written by Andrew Pardoe, Mark Levine, and Iyyappa Murugandi. Thank you for your feedback! We've made some changes to the layouts based on your feedback. Update Dec 8 2016 Finding the location of a VC++ install: Some folks have asked about how to find instances of Visual C++ on a developer's machine. ...

C++ compiler diagnostics improvements in VS “15” Preview 5

October 5th, 2016

This post written by Andrew Marino and Andrew Pardoe Visual C++ in VS “15” Preview 5 now allows you to see where errors are in a line of code—the column number—as opposed to just showing the line number. As C++ has grown it’s increasingly useful to have a little more help finding your errors. Consider this somewhat contrived ...

C++ code analysis: tell us what you think!

September 27th, 2016

We'd love to hear more about what you would like to see in C++ code analysis. We're running a short survey--just 20 questions--to help us understand how to make C++ code analysis and Visual C++ better. Please take a couple of minutes to fill out our C++ Code Analysis survey and let us know your thoughts. Survey link: https://www....