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Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project [[Version 2.0]]

January 15, 2014 Jan 15, 2014 01/15/14
Eric Battalio
We are thrilled to announce version 2.0 of the PDB Project extension on the Visual Studio Gallery. PDB Project, as the name suggests, takes the information contained in a .pdb file to create a C++ project. The Information extracted from the .pdb includes both the source files (.c, .cpp) used for building, as well as the sources of the linked ...

Visual Studio Rename Refactor Helper for Visual Studio 2013

November 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013 11/19/13
Eric Battalio
The C++ language is large and complex with context-sensitive syntax subtleties that make it difficult to create a reliable and fast rename refactoring tool. For years we wanted to include rename refactoring in Visual C++ but it never quite made it. We were concerned about scalability, performance and accuracy for different user scenarios. ...

Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP

November 18, 2013 Nov 18, 2013 11/18/13
Eric Battalio
Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in Visual Studio 2012. At that time, and at GoingNative 2013 this year, we promised to keep releasing these CTPs to show our progress towards full C...

Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch is here!

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
Eric Battalio
The worldwide launch of Visual Studio 2013 is today.Join Microsoft executives S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie, and Brian Harry at 7:00am PST for the keynote. Other events will follow throughout the day. Sessions will be recorded and shared later if you can't catch them all live.Visual C++ developers will want to tune in to the live Q&A session...

Microsoft Virtual Academy – C++: A General Purpose Language and Library

November 11, 2013 Nov 11, 2013 11/11/13
Eric Battalio
Interested in learning the basics of C++? Next Tuesday, November 19, Kate Gregory and James McNellis will be teaching a free introductory C++ course on Microsoft Virtual Academy, "C++: A General Purpose Language and Library." Kate is a C++ expert and long-time Microsoft Visual C++ MVP; James is a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. The...

Visual Studio 2013 Available Now!

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
Eric Battalio
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available. And now—in no particular order—here are the top reasons why C++ developers want Visual Studio 2013:Better C++ language conformance. Support for C++11 began in Visual Studio 2010, which included auto and lambda functions. In Visual Studio 2012, we implemented ...

What’s New for Visual C++ Developers in VS2013 Preview

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13
Eric Battalio
Since the newer Visual C++ content is not yet live on MSDN, I copied the key bits from the "What's New for Visual C++ Developers" and replicated it below. Note that this post may be removed after the MSDN content has been available for a few weeks.Thanks for your patience!Improved ISO C/C++ Standards SupportCompiler The default ...

Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available!

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13
Eric Battalio
Soma announced availability of the Visual Studio 2013 Preview.The experience for Visual C++ developers was improved with enhancements in the following areas: ISO C/C++ standards, Visual C++ library, C++ application performance, Windows Store App development, diagnostics, 3-D graphics, the IDE and productivity.Here are the key links: We ...

More Q&A for the C++ AMP book

October 15, 2012 Oct 15, 2012 10/15/12
Eric Battalio
As we shared last week, Kate Gregory and Ade Miller have released C++ AMP, an exploration of accelerated massive parallelism with Microsoft® Visual C++®. In that post, Ade answered a few of our hard-hitting questions. In this post, Kate answers the same set of questions:Q1.    “C++ AMP” in 140 characters or ...