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Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade: Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost “too easy”

Marian Luparu March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17

Visual Studio 2017 is a major leap forward in terms of C++ functionality compared with VS 2015. We hope the new release will delight you in your day-to-day job as soon as you can upgrade. This blog post focuses on the steps needed to upgrade from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017. As promised in our BUILD 2016 talk "6 reasons to move your C++ code ...

Vcpkg recent enhancements

EricMittelette February 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017 02/14/17

Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. Since our first release we have continually improved the tool by fixing issues and adding features. The latest version of the tool is 0.0.71, here is a summary of the changes in this version:See the Change Log file for more detailed description: https://github.com/...

vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey

EricMittelette January 11, 2017 Jan 11, 2017 01/11/17

vcpkg, a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows, was published 3 months ago. We started with 20 libraries and now the C++ community has added 121 new C++ libraries. We really appreciate your feedback and we created a survey to collect it. Please take 5 minutes to complete it. The survey measure your overall ...

Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available

EricMittelette November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16

One month ago, we announced the availability of Vcpkg a command line tool to easily acquire and build open source C++ lib and consume it in Visual Studio 2015. The initial release provided only dynamic link libraries, but we heard your feedback, and we are pleased to announce static linking support with Vcpkg. To generate static libraries, ...

Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows

EricMittelette September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16

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Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade: Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost “too easy”

Vcpkg recent enhancements

vcpkg 3 Months Anniversary, Survey

Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available

Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows

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