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Smarter Member List Filtering for C++

Nick UhlenhuthJuly 29, 2019Jul 29, 201907/29/19

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 ...

New Code Analysis Checks in Visual Studio 2019: use-after-move and coroutine

Sunny ChatterjeeJanuary 28, 2019Jan 28, 201901/28/19

Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is an exciting release for the C++ code analysis team. In this release, we shipped a new set of experimental rules that help you catch bugs in your codebase, namely: use-after-move and coroutine checks. This article provides an overview of the new rules and how you can enable them in your project. Use-after-move ...

MSVC Preprocessor Progress towards Conformance

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]July 6, 2018Jul 6, 201807/6/18

Why re-write the preprocessor? Recently, we published a blog post on C++ conformance completion. As mentioned in the blog post, the preprocessor in MSVC is currently getting an overhaul. We are doing this to improve its language conformance, address some of the longstanding bugs that were difficult to fix due to its design and improve its ...

New, experimental code analysis features in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 3

eli fesslerJune 26, 2018Jun 26, 201806/26/18

The Visual C++ team has been working to refresh our code analysis experience inside Visual Studio. We’re aiming to make these tools both more useful and natural to use and hope that they’ll benefit you no matter your workflow, style, or project type. Trying out new features In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3, available in the ...

Broken Warnings Theory

Yuriy SolodkyyDecember 13, 2017Dec 13, 201712/13/17

Перевод статьи на русском The "broken warnings theory" is a fictional theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of coding practices and bug-checking techniques in 3rd party libraries on new bugs and design anti-patterns. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring warning levels to prevent small problems ...

Precompiled Header (PCH) issues and recommendations

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]July 13, 2017Jul 13, 201707/13/17

This post written by Mark Hall, Xiang Fan, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe. Precompiled headers can reduce your compilation times significantly. They’ve worked reliably for millions of developers since they were introduced 25 years ago to speed up builds of MFC apps. Precompiled headers are widely used: they are ...

Clang 3.8 in the May release of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen

Yuriy SolodkyyJune 3, 2016Jun 3, 201606/3/16

This blog post written by Dave Bartolomeo, Yuriy Solodkyy, and Andrew Pardoe We have just released our fifth out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset. As always, this release has been driven by your feedback. While we've heard a lot of feature requests the one's we've heard most frequently are that you want Clang 3.8 and you want x64-hosted ...

Clang/C2: We need your advice!

Andrew PardoeApril 6, 2016Apr 6, 201604/6/16

The Visual C++ team has shipped three releases of Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (Clang/C2). We've got a solid pre-production compiler that passes all of our STL tests and compiles a bunch of code into native Windows binaries. We've about to move to the 3.8 release of clang. We're also working on getting x64-hosted tools up and running. Our ...

Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (January 2016) released

Andrew PardoeJanuary 20, 2016Jan 20, 201601/20/16

We have just released an out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset that brings in some of the community fixes as well as bugs found from testing. This is one of many rapid releases to come in the future, and issues reported from customers will be addressed progressively. Here we only list the changes since the previous release, for a more ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1: New Experimental Feature – MPX

Yuriy SolodkyyJanuary 20, 2016Jan 20, 201601/20/16

Introduction This post is about Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX) support in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2015; content provided by Gautham Beeraka, George Kuan, and Juan Rodriguez from Intel Corporation. Overview Update 1 for Visual Studio 2015 was announced on November 30, 2015. This update ...

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