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

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

Eric Battalio

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

December 2, 2015 Dec 2, 2015 12/2/15

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]

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

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

Eric Battalio

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

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

Eric Battalio

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

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

Eric Battalio

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

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

Eric Battalio

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

May 7, 2015 May 7, 2015 05/7/15

Eric Battalio

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!

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

Eric Battalio

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 ...

More about resumable functions in C++

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

Raman Sharma

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 ...

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

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

Ankit Asthana

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 ...

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