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AddressSanitizer (ASan) for Windows with MSVC

October 23, 2019 Oct 23, 2019 10/23/19
Augustin Popa
⌚ This post was last updated on March 24th, 2021 with the latest information on ASan support. Note: This feature is now generally available. To get started, take a look at the official AddressSanitizer for Windows with MSVC documentation. Many experience improvements have been made since this blog post was published, and our docs have the...

Usability Improvements for CMake in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4: Launch Target Selection and Overview Pages

October 15, 2019 Oct 15, 2019 10/15/19
Erika Sweet
We hear your feedback, and in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 2 we have addressed one of our top Developer Community issues related to CMake development in Visual Studio by revamping the selection of CMake launch targets. We have also added Overview Pages for CMake to help you get started with CMake and cross-platform development. If ...

Code analysis with clang-tidy in Visual Studio

October 8, 2019 Oct 8, 2019 10/8/19
eli fessler
[Updated on 11/6/2019] - Removed "Setup: Installing Clang tools" section; this is no longer required starting in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 3. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 1 brings a significant improvement to the C++ code analysis experience: native support for clang-tidy, a Clang-based “linter” tool developed ...

Microsoft C++ Team on CppCast

September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19
Sy Brand
Today we have a short guest post from Rob Irving, host of CppCast to tell us about an episode he recorded with our team. (image)   During CppCon 2019 the hosts of CppCast had a chance to sit down with Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T. Lavavej from Microsoft's C++ team to discuss some of the announcements made by the team at...

The Future of C++/CLI and .NET Core 3

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Will Buik
.NET Core 3.0 is now available and we have received a lot of questions about what that means for the future of C++/CLI. First, we would like to let everyone know that we are committed to supporting C++/CLI for .NET Core to enable easy interop between C++ codebases and .NET technologies such as WPF and Windows Forms. This support isn’t going ...

Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
Today at CppCon 2019, we (the MSVC team) announced that we're releasing our implementation of the C++ Standard Library (also known as the STL) as open source. https://github.com/microsoft/STL is our new repository, containing all of our product source code, a new CMake build system, and a README with more information. As it explains, we're ...

Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019

September 6, 2019 Sep 6, 2019 09/6/19
Sy Brand
(image) The Microsoft C++ team will have a booth and many talks covering a wide range of topics at CppCon 2019. Come say hi to our team outside Aurora D and attend our talks to learn what's new in our tooling, dive into new features in the standard, and hear some exciting announcements! We'll also be running a survey on the C++ ...

C++ Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3: vcpkg, CMake configuration, remote headers, and WSL

August 16, 2019 Aug 16, 2019 08/16/19
Erika Sweet
In Visual Studio 2019 you can target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio’s native support for CMake lets you open any folder containing C++ code and a CMakeLists.txt file directly in Visual Studio to edit, build, and debug your CMake project on Windows, Linux, and the Windows Subsystem for ...

Smarter Member List Filtering for C++ 

July 29, 2019 Jul 29, 2019 07/29/19
Nick Uhlenhuth
We are always looking for ways to make you more productive while coding in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we have created a smarter, more relevant Member List. Specifically, we now apply method filtering based on type qualifiers. To illustrate this, consider the following example:  You have two vectors, but one is...