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The latest in C++, Visual Studio, VS Code, and vcpkg from the MSFT C++ team

Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14

Eric Battalio

Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog. Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an updated conformance roadmap.Pause. Cool, huh?Here are the improvements for Visual C++: To view the entire ...

Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14

Eric Battalio

Survey Says…one more bump!

June 2, 2014 Jun 2, 2014 06/2/14

Eric Battalio

Some developers just like you have already taken one (or both) of our active surveys. Many have opted in for more engagement, agreeing to be contacted for follow-up questions and for a chance to learn more about your development experiences.Our surveys are still open so you still have a chance to participate: Please consider opting in and ...

Solution Dependency Viewer extension

May 29, 2014 May 29, 2014 05/29/14

Visual CPP Team

Hello, In my previous blog, I introduced PDBProject Extension VS2103 as an alternative way to leverage the IDE features. In this post, I would like to introduce Solution Dependency Viewer Extension as an easy to understand overview of your solution. This extension parses each C++, C#, and VB projects in the solution and presents a ...

Survey Says…

May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14

Eric Battalio

Survey, survey, survey!We really want you to fill out our new survey. It is short and focuses on your C++ development experience including Android and iOS. Why? Cross platform mobile device development is important:With bring-your-own-device trends in the enterprise, and heterogeneity in the consumer mobile device market, developers are ...

Survey Says…

May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14

Eric Battalio

Visual Studio Graphics Frame Analysis in action!

May 5, 2014 May 5, 2014 05/5/14

Rong Lu

As mentioned in this blog post a few weeks ago, one of the features we're adding in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Download Update 2 RC) is Graphics Frame Analysis. This feature can be useful to help identify performance bottlenecks in your DirectX applications. How to use it? To start, launch your DirectX app with Graphics Diagnostics through...

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14

Eric Battalio

Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda: Visual C++ MVP Jochen Kalmbach will be there exploring debugging tools for Windows. Are you attending? Share your thoughts and pictures on Twitter using hashtag #adcpp&...

Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30

April 28, 2014 Apr 28, 2014 04/28/14

Eric Battalio

Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14

Eric Battalio

MSDN hosts a number of excellent blogs including the .NET Framework Blog. They are not exclusively .NET: In VS2013 RTM we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub with a bunch of tools that help you diagnose issues during your Windows Store app development. With VS2013 Update 2 we added two brand new tools: CPU Usage, and Memory Usage. ...