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    Augustin Popa

    Program Manager, Microsoft C++ Team

    Product manager on the Microsoft C++ team, currently working on vcpkg and Visual Studio setup.

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    vcpkg May 2022 Release: artifacts using JSON, COS and SPDX support, and more
    vcpkg May 2022 Release: artifacts using JSON, COS and SPDX support, and more
    May 17th, 2022
    The May 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from March 31st, 2022 to May 10th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes vcpkg Artifacts update This is our first significant update to...

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    vcpkg April 2022 Release: artifacts merged to tool repo, tar.exe in Windows 10, GIT_ASKPASS, vcpkg in Arch Linux instructions, and more
    vcpkg April 2022 Release: artifacts merged to tool repo, tar.exe in Windows 10, GIT_ASKPASS, vcpkg in Arch Linux instructions, and more
    April 22nd, 2022
    The April 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from March 1st, 2022 to March 30th, 2022 for the microsoft/vcpkg and microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes vcpkg artifacts merged into Microsoft/vcpkg-tool repo vcpkg...

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    All vcpkg enterprise features now generally available: versioning, binary caching, manifests and registries
    All vcpkg enterprise features now generally available: versioning, binary caching, manifests and registries
    May 19th, 2021
    We are announcing today that all major vcpkg enterprise features are no longer experimental. The latest vcpkg release makes versioning, binary caching, manifests and registries generally available to any developer, team or enterprise. We have steadily been adding to vcpkg over the years. What started as a small open source project to ...

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    Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: MSVC Compiler
    Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: MSVC Compiler
    April 7th, 2021
    Special thanks to Aaron Gorenstein for authoring this blog post. The AddressSanitizer (ASan) is generally available for MSVC since the recently-released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We’ve already shown how easy it can be to find bugs in even production-ready code like EASTL. Here I’ll share an example of how it found a real bug in ...

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    Address Sanitizer for MSVC Now Generally Available
    Address Sanitizer for MSVC Now Generally Available
    March 9th, 2021
     This post was last updated on March 10th, 2021. Special thanks to Aaron Gorenstein who provided most of the content for this blog post. Special thanks as well to Kevin Cadieux and Jim Radigan who also made contributions.   You can check out a demo on this feature in the latest Visual Studio Toolbox episode on YouTube: Visual Studio ...

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    Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
    Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
    February 25th, 2021
    Special thanks to Nicole Mazzuca for providing the content of this blog post. Are you working on a C++ project with library dependencies? Are you tired of maintaining a custom-built package management workflow with duct tape and git submodules? Then you should consider trying out a package manager. Perhaps you have been side-eyeing vcpkg ...

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    Take control of your vcpkg dependencies with versioning support
    Take control of your vcpkg dependencies with versioning support
    February 18th, 2021
    Special thanks to Victor Romero for putting together the content for this blog post. We have an exciting new feature to announce in vcpkg: the long-awaited and highly requested package versioning! This feature makes it possible to install specific versions of dependencies and control installed versions over time. In order to use this ...

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    vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests
    vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests
    September 14th, 2020
     This post was updated on September 21, 2020 to add more information on the GitHub Packages binary caching example.  Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. September is the biggest month for us in the Microsoft C++ team as it’s CppCon month! Our team has many exciting ...

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    AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support
    AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support
    August 11th, 2020
    ⌚ This post was last updated on March 24, 2021 with up-to-date information as of the 16.9 release of Visual Studio.  Special thanks to Jim Radigan and Matthew McGovern for providing the content for this blog post. Note: This feature is now generally available. To get started, take a look at the official AddressSanitizer for Windows ...

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    Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap
    Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap
    May 1st, 2020
    This is the April 2020 blog post on vcpkg, the cross-platform, open source C/C++ library manager. In this post, we will share some information on the 2020.04 release of vcpkg and discuss the vcpkg product roadmap, which we are publishing and will keep up to date over time. To try out vcpkg for yourself and save yourself some time acquiring ...

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