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Did You See: Improve Your Build Times With IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015

Eric Battalio December 11, 2015 Dec 11, 2015 12/11/15

Did you see this post Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 on the Visual Studio blog?IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and other development processes to execute in parallel over a distributed network. It works locally on your development box and over a build ...

Partial Support for Expression SFINAE in VS 2015 Update 1

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT] December 2, 2015 Dec 2, 2015 12/2/15

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we added partial support for C++11 core language feature Expression SFINAE. What is SFINAE? SFINAE is an acronym for ‘Substitution Failure Is Not An Error’. The idea is that when the compiler tries to specialize a function template during overload resolution, it is ok if the specialization fails as ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Is Here

Eric Battalio December 1, 2015 Dec 1, 2015 12/1/15

Did you miss the Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 announcement yesterday on the Visual Studio blog? Keep checking back here for more details about these and other features.Share your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on UserVoice, through the in-product feedback UI, or file a bug through the Visual Studio Connect site. Thanks...

The Visual C++ team is at CppCon 2015

Eric Battalio September 20, 2015 Sep 20, 2015 09/20/15

Are you in town to attend CppCon this week? It's going to be an exciting week in C++ and especially exciting for the Visual C++ team! We've got a dozen talks scheduled that discuss everything from the ideas we're proposing to help move the language forward to amazing new functionality we're adding in Visual Studio.Visual Studio 2015 includes a...

Setup Changes in Visual Studio 2015 Affecting C++ Developers

Eric Battalio July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15

As mentioned in the Visual Studio 2015 IDE blog post, the setup experience of the product now provides more control to the user, for what does and doesn’t get installed. That blog post also talks about the rationale for this change and future direction for Visual Studio install experience. C++ is one of the features which is ...

Visual Studio 2015 RTM Now Available

Eric Battalio July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15

Today Soma announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 RTM and invited Brian Harry and others to talk about new features and experiences. You can watch the VS 2015 keynote or catch the recording on Channel 9 later. Additionally, we have over 60 on-demand videos on Channel 9 that drill into the details of various features and improvements....

Real World Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2015: Synergex

Eric Battalio May 7, 2015 May 7, 2015 05/7/15

The Visual C++ team welcomes opportunities to help partners, customers and the community (future customers) realize the benefits of Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2015. Recently, we have been fortunate to work with Synergex to go beyond debugging Windows code with Visual Studio: Now we’re focusing our efforts on moving our customers and ...

Visual Studio 2015 RC Now Available!

Eric Battalio April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Today Soma (and Brian and Scott) announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. They all point to the downloads, so if you are in a hurry: Please submit feedback. You C/C++ developers have never been shy about voicing your concerns; channel that energy into ...

What’s new with C++ cross-platform development with VS 2015 RC

Ankit Asthana April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Continuing our investment in Visual C++ cross-platform mobile, starting with VS2015 RC (download here) we are pleased to announce support for building iOS applications using Visual Studio. Our iOS targeting story is definitely work in progress, and this feature enablement shares our current line of thinking. Over the next few releases we ...

More about resumable functions in C++

Raman Sharma April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

With the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC, we wanted to provide an update on the progress of resumable functions support in Visual C++. Since last time, we have made some changes to our experimental implementation that tracks the latest proposal (with the exception that resumable_traits and resumable_handle are called coroutine_traits and ...

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