C++ Team Blog

STL Features and Fixes in VS 2017 15.8

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

Billy O'Neal

15.7 was our first feature complete C++17 library (except floating-point <charconv>), and in 15.8 we have addressed large numbers of outstanding bugs. As usual, we’ve maintained a detailed list of the STL fixes that are available. Visual Studio 2017 15.8 is available at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/. New Features...

Parallel Custom Build Tools in Visual Studio 2017

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

olgaark

Many projects need to use additional tools during their build to generate sources for further compilation or perform other custom build tasks. VC projects have always supported Custom Build Tool integration, but it had some limitations. One of the popular requests on UserVoice is Allow custom build tools to run in parallel. Another problem is ...

Exploring Clang Tooling, Part 0: Building Your Code with Clang

September 18, 2018 Sep 18, 2018 09/18/18

Stephen Kelly

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today’s post is by guest author Stephen Kelly...

Using C++17 Parallel Algorithms for Better Performance

September 11, 2018 Sep 11, 2018 09/11/18

Billy O'Neal

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today’s post is by Billy O'Neal...

std::optional: How, when, and why

September 4, 2018 Sep 4, 2018 09/4/18

Casey Carter

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today’s post is by Casey Carter...

Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]

We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have jointly agreed to provide a version of Boost.Hana in vcpkg to promote usage of the library among more C++ users from the Visual C++ community. We've...

Q&A: How to specialize std::sort by binding the comparison function

August 29, 2018 Aug 29, 2018 08/29/18

Herb Sutter

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: Visual C++, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today's Q&A is by Herb Sutter. ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension August 2018 Update

August 23, 2018 Aug 23, 2018 08/23/18

Rong Lu

Late last week we shipped the August 2018 update  to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update included support for “Just My Code” symbol search, a gcc-x64 option in the intelliSenseMode setting, and many bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes in the release notes. “Just My Code” symbol search Keyboard shortcut...

std::string_view: The Duct Tape of String Types

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18

Billy O'Neal

Visual Studio 2017 contains support for std::string_view, a type added in C++17 to serve some of the roles previously served by const char * and const std::string& parameters. string_view is neither a "better const std::string&", nor "better const char *"; it is neither a superset or subset of either. std::string_view is intended to be...

C++ development with Docker containers in Visual Studio Code

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Rong Lu

Containers allow developers to package up an application with all the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one image. This is especially useful for C++ cross-platform development – with containers you can choose to target a platform that runs on a completely different operating system than your ...