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Structured Diagnostics in the New Problem Details Window

October 11, 2023 Oct 11, 2023 10/11/23
Sy Brand
Massive compiler errors which seem impossible to navigate are the bane of many C++ developers’ lives. It’s up to tools to provide a better experience to help you comprehend diagnostics and understand how to fix the root issue. I wrote Concepts Error Messages for Humans to explore some of the design space and now, due to the hard work of ...

The Future of C++ Compiler Diagnostics in MSVC and Visual Studio

September 16, 2022 Sep 16, 2022 09/16/22
Xiang Fan
We are working hard on improving the diagnostics experience in MSVC and Visual Studio. We began this work in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 and while not everything is ready yet, we would like to share the early progress. (image) Motivation & Principles New C++ features like concepts and ranges present the opportunity for more ...

Microsoft C++ Code Analysis supports SARIF 2.1

May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21
Hwi-sung Im
Starting with Visual Studio 16.8, MSVC Code Analysis officially supports SARIF 2.1.0 standard. SARIF is an industry standard for representing static analysis logs and we've been one of the earliest collaborators with the SARIF Technical Committee. Behind the scenes, analysis log files in the SARIF format powers Visual Studio IDE to ...