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Format Specifiers Checking

June 22, 2015 Jun 22, 2015 06/22/15
Yuriy Solodkyy
By popular request, in Visual Studio 2015 RTM, we’ve implemented the checking of arguments given to printf/scanf and their variations in the C standard library. You can try the examples from this post in our online compiler.SummaryHere is a list of all the formatting warnings that were introduced: positional arguments in _p functions , ...

MFC Dynamic Dialog Layout

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Artur Laksberg
One of the frequently requested MFC features (and by the way, thanks for the feedback and keep it coming!) is the ability to intelligently resize dialogs and their content at runtime. One approach is to intercept WM_SIZE message of the parent dialog and recalculate the size and position of the child controls accordingly. It works, but is ...

Find Your Favorite Library for C++ in NuGet

February 13, 2015 Feb 13, 2015 02/13/15
Hong Hong -
Many of you may know that NuGet is the “go-to” library repository for .NET development, but what about using it for C++? The answer here may surprise you as many of the top open source C++ libraries are actually sitting in the NuGet gallery. For those who haven’t used NuGet before, NuGet is the package manager system for the...

Native Memory Diagnostics in CTP 5

January 29, 2015 Jan 29, 2015 01/29/15
Adam Welch (MSFT)
The Visual Studio Memory Usage tool is now selected by default in VS2015 CTP 5.  When you first debug a native app in CTP 5, the Diagnostic Tools window will launch and show both the Memory Usage and CPU Usage tools since they are both checked by default.  For more information on the Diagnostic Tools window and other tools, please ...

Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview

November 21, 2014 Nov 21, 2014 11/21/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and also in the earlier CTP releases of Visual Studio 2015, we released a memory diagnostic tool that allowed developers to take heap snapshots of their application and then examine the heap contents upon terminating their application.  The initial release supported viewing managed and native objects in the heap...

Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC

July 2, 2014 Jul 2, 2014 07/2/14
Rong Lu
Hello again! Three months have passed since we talked about what's new for Graphics Development in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. Since then the team has been working to bring even more Graphics Diagnostics features into Visual Studio. I'm very excited to share with you what we have put in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC that just shipped! (...

Project Support for Natvis

June 12, 2014 Jun 12, 2014 06/12/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
The past two releases of Visual Studio have evolved the Natvis format to allow developers to easily visualize their debug data inside the VC++ expression evaluator.  The first Visual Studio “14” CTP provides a new way for native developers to consume and manage their Natvis debug visualizers.  In response to requests from...

Parallel STL – Democratizing Parallelism in C++

April 16, 2014 Apr 16, 2014 04/16/14
Artur Laksberg
Only a few years ago, writing parallel code in C++ was a domain of the experts. Nowadays, this field is becoming more and more accessible to regular developers thanks to the advances in libraries, such as the PPL and C++ AMP from Microsoft, Intel's Threading Building Blocks, OpenMP or OpenACC if you prefer a pragma-style approach, OpenCL for ...

DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14
Rong Lu
Hello, everyone! My name is Rong Lu, a program manager on the Visual C++ team. Last week at BUILD conference, I gave a talk on “DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2” in which we walked through a couple of exciting new features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Download Update 2 RC) for DirectX development...