The C++ team is committed to making your C++ coding experience as safe as possible. In the last couple of releases, we added new safety checks based on the requests of internal customers like the Windows group. Below is the overview of the new checks. For additional information for each of the checks, please refer to the linked help documents. C63...

New Enumeration Checks in Visual Studio 2022

Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022

List of Code Analysis Fixes in Visual Studio 2019 16.11

Reading uninitialized memory is one of the major sources of security vulnerabilities in C and C++ programs. Microsoft developed many tools to find such errors including compiler warnings, static analysis checks, and more recently: code instrumentation.  For a more detailed overview of uninitialized memory related vulnerabilities and mitigations ple...