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If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.This post examines Constant-Folding – one of the simplest optimizations performed by the VC++ compiler. In this optimization, the compiler works out the result of an expression while it is compiling (at “compile-time”), an...
Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 come with improvements for exception reporting in the platform and the debugger which will make it easier for native Windows Store App developers to diagnose errors in their applications. In this post, I’ll discuss a few of those improvements that are available in Visual Studio 2013 and show the differences ...
I'm Stephan T. Lavavej, and for the last six and a half years I've been working with Dinkumware to maintain the C++ Standard Library implementation in Visual C++. It's been a while since my last VCBlog post, because getting our latest batch of changes ready to ship has kept me very busy, but now I have time to write up what we've done! &nbs...
In Visual Studio 2012 we introduced the ability to create visualizations for native types using natvis files. Visual Studio 2013 contains several improvements that make it easier to author visualizations for classes that internally make use of collections to store items. In this blog post I’ll show an example scenario t...
If you’ve ever profiled an optimized build of a C++ application there is a good chance that you looked at the profiling report and saw some functions missing that you expected to be present so you had to assume that they had been inlined but couldn’t be certain. Likewise, if you’ve ever tried to improve your application’s pe...
Since the newer Visual C++ content is not yet live on MSDN, I copied the key bits from the "What's New for Visual C++ Developers" and replicated it below. Note that this post may be removed after the MSDN content has been available for a few weeks.Thanks for your patience!Improved ISO C/C++ Standards SupportCompiler The default behavior w...
If you have experience debugging C# or Visual Basic code in Visual Studio, you are probably familiar with a debugging feature called Just My Code (JMC). In Visual Studio 2013, we introduce Just My Code for C++. In VS2013, the goal of this C++ JMC feature is to help the user focus on their code when viewing call stacks without getting lo...
Soma announced availability of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview.The experience for Visual C++ developers was improved with enhancements in the following areas: ISO C/C++ standards, Visual C++ library, C++ application performance, Windows Store App development, diagnostics, 3-D graphics, the IDE and productivity.Here are the key links: We look ...
Howdy! Today I thought I’d start explaining how NuGet supports C/C++ packages under the covers, and look into how one could (theoretically) manually construct a package without using the CoApp PowerShell tools. As I mentioned before, C/C++ packages built for NuGet didn't require a whole lot of change in NuGet itself—primarily becaus...
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning. This post explains the flow of data within the Visual C++ compiler – starting with our C++ source program, and ending with a corresponding binary program. This post is an easy one – dipping our toes into the shallow end of ocea...