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Vcpkg: introducing installation options with Feature Packages

EricMitteletteFebruary 6, 2018Feb 6, 201802/6/18

We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages. Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015. With Feature Packages you have more control over how you build a library as you can ...

Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command

EricMitteletteJanuary 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18

If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about vcpkg, check out our initial post. We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact --survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team. A big thank you to those of you that shared your thoughts and suggestions with the team through this new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1

Andrew PardoeDecember 4, 2015Dec 4, 201512/4/15

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Bringing Clang to Windows

Yuriy SolodkyyMay 1, 2015May 1, 201505/1/15

As you may know, Visual Studio now supports building Android and iOS applications using Clang. We realize the need of our users to write cross-platform apps and we know that C++ offers massive benefits in the cross-platform arena. Clang has made impressive strides in standards conformance and diagnostics and is fast becoming the preferred C++ ...

Details About Some of the New C++ Language Features

Yuriy SolodkyyNovember 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14

When you read our release notes, you'll notice that we've added a large number of C++ language features. The details of what these features are can be found all over the web, but what purpose they serve might still be nebulous. This article will attempt to explain the origins of and how to use a few of these new language mechanisms for best ...

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