Sy Brand

C++ Developer Advocate, C++ Team

Sy Brand is Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Their background is in compilers and debuggers for embedded accelerators, but they’re also interested in generic library design, metaprogramming, functional-style C++, undefined behaviour, and making our communities more inclusive and welcoming.

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Pure Virtual C++: CMake Debugger, Build Insights in Visual Studio, and more

June 1st, 2023
Pure Virtual C++ is our free, annual, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it is running June 6th and you can find the session list and sign-up for free on the event page. In the run up to the conference we will be publishing new C++ videos every day. You can find the playlist on YouTube. We've ...

Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Pre-Conference Videos

May 24th, 2023
Pure Virtual C++ is our free, annual, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it is running June 6th and you can find the session list and sign-up for free on the event page. In the run up to the conference we will be publishing new C++ videos every day. You can find the playlist on YouTube. The first two ...

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 for C++ Developers

May 16th, 2023
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page. Cross-...

Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference

May 10th, 2023
Every year we run Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. Next month we’re doing it again! Sign-up for free to get access to our five live sessions and a host of pre-conference content. The live event will run June 6th 13:00-16:00 UTC. Videos will be available to stream for free on YouTube ...

Documentation for C++20 Ranges

April 26th, 2023
C++20 introduced Ranges to the standard library: a new way of expressing composable transformations on collections of data. This feature adds a huge amount of expressive power and flexibility to C++. As with many concepts in C++, that power comes with new concepts to learn, and some complexity which can be difficult to navigate. One way of ...

Fill in the ISO C++ Developer Survey

April 24th, 2023
The ISO C++ developer survey runs every year and is a great help to us in prioritizing work based on what the community cares about. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete and closes tomorrow, so please take the time to fill it out.  ...

Functional exception-less error handling with C++23’s optional and expected

April 18th, 2023
C++23's new facilities for handling disappointments without exceptions.

C++23’s New Fold Algorithms

April 13th, 2023
New fold algorithms in C++23, what they do, how to use them.

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 for C++ Developers

February 21st, 2023
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. See the Visual Studio 17.5 announcement to learn about all of the features in the release. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade ...

A Tour of 4 MSVC Backend Improvements

November 28th, 2022
This blog post presents some of the optimizations the backend team has implemented for Visual Studio 2022.

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