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Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 Now Available
Today we released Visual Studio "14" CTP 3 and an early build of the .NET Framework (read the announcement on the Visual Studio blog here). Grab it from the Microsoft Download Center or from MSDN subscriber downloads or save some setup time and use a ready-to-use VM in Azure.In this CTP, we continue enhancing our C/C++ standard conformance support in addition to overall C++ user productivity improvements: For those of you looking for the Multibyte MFC Library, it is available here as part of the Visual Studio "14" STP 3 release. For more details including a complete list of known issues going back to CT...
Survey for You :)
We know a lot of you C++ developers also use other frameworks like .NET and Xamarin. If so, do you mind taking a brief survey at https://aka.ms/vsmdd? Look for us to share highlights from the last couple of surveys in the next month or so. We are still ruminating over the responses and the individual discussions we had with those of you who opted in. Thanks!
Bugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Read the release announcements by Soma and Brian Harry or learn more by checking out the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM release notes. As always, thanks to each of you for providing feedback and helping us to improve Visual C++.
C++ Runtime for Sideloaded Windows 8.1 apps
A while ago we posted about how the distribution and deployment of C++ Runtime as a dependency was handled through the Windows Store. That mechanism works for apps that are themselves distributed through the Store. However, there are cases in which you need to build apps that don't ship through the Windows Store, for example enterprise apps that are deployed only within your company. For such scenarios you need to use an alternate deployment mechanism called sideloading, which has been further improved in Windows 8.1 update.In case of apps that have a dependency on the Visual C++ 2013 Runtime (the Microsoft.VCLib...
Visual C++ Bytes Redux
Be sure to check out the third episode of the current season of VC++ Bytes, featuring demos for a slew of additional productivity features added to Visual Studio “14” CTP 2! Do you have suggestions for who we should interview? Let us know in the comments below!
Using Boost Libraries in Windows Store and Phone Applications
Boost contains a lot of high quality cross platform C++ libraries. Some of the libraries in Boost use APIs that aren’t available in Windows Store and Phone applications. To help improve the experience Microsoft’s been working on enabling some of the Boost libraries. We’ve made improvements to the Boost build system to support targeting the Windows Runtime for Windows Store and Phone. Also we’ve made changes to make the following Boost libraries work for Windows Store and Phone: system, chrono, date_time, smart_ptr, signals2, and thread. In addition to these Boost libraries, many others don...
Building 8.1 apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store) using Visual Studio “14” CTP2
We recently released the CTP2 for Visual Studio “14”. Through this blog post we wanted to inform you and solicit feedback about a change we have made in the way building C++ apps for down-level platforms is handled. Everything mentioned below is relevant only for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. There are no changes for Desktop apps.HistoryTo provide some context, you would probably remember that in Visual Studio 2013, the primary development scenarios (for Store and Phone apps) are targeted towards the latest version of the platform (i.e. Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1).&nbs...
Building 8.1 apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store) using Visual Studio “14” CTP2
We recently released the CTP2 for Visual Studio “14”. Through this blog post we wanted to inform you and solicit feedback about a change we have made in the way building C++ apps for down-level platforms is handled. Everything mentioned below is relevant only for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. There are no changes for Desktop apps.HistoryTo provide some context, you would probably remember that in Visual Studio 2013, the primary development scenarios (for Store and Phone apps) are targeted towards the latest version of the platform (i.e. Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1).&nbs...
CTP2 for Visual Studio “14” Now Available
You have probably already heard, but CTP2 for Visual Studio "14" is now available. It has only been a month since the last CTP so the list of updates is short, but we did make a few editor enhancements as detailed on the Visual Studio blog.Please kick the tires and send us any feedback, questions, comments, etc. You can always email me, Eric, at ebattali@Microsoft.com.Thanks!