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Address Sanitizer Now in “Early Release” for Xbox Developers

June 22, 2021 Jun 22, 2021 06/22/21

David Li

Address Sanitizer is now available on Xbox, developers can leverage this powerful technology to help debug memory issues in their titles. Combined with the crash dump changes detailed here, it should provide all the flexibility required to support your automated tests suites and enable you to find issues quickly and easily.

Static Analysis Fixes, Improvements, and Updates in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10

June 10, 2021 Jun 10, 2021 06/10/21

Jordan Maples

The C++ static analysis team is committed to making your C++ coding experience as safe as possible. We are adding richer code safety checks and addressing high impact customer feedback bugs posted on the C++ Developer Community page. Thank you for engaging with us and giving us great feedback on the past releases and early previews leading ...

New Static Analysis Rule for Bounds Checking

May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 05/11/21

Jordan Maples

We have added a new experimental static analysis rule in Visual Studio 16.10 version Preview 3 - C26458, WARNING_PATH_SENSITIVE_USE_GSL_AT. The new warning is a more precise and less noisy version of warning C26446, WARNING_USE_GSL_AT. Both warnings analyse standard containers for unchecked element access and they both share the warning ...

Static Analysis Fixes, Improvements, and Updates in Visual Studio 2019 16.9

March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21

Jordan Maples

MSVC static analysis update for Visual Studio 16.9.

Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios See 18.2X and 4.95X Link Time Improvements Respectively on Visual Studio 2019

February 2, 2021 Feb 2, 2021 02/2/21

David Li

The C++ team at Visual Studio has delivered substantial compile and link time improvements throughout Visual Studio 2019. Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios shares their link time improvement wins.

The Coalition Sees 27.9X Iteration Build Improvement with Visual Studio 2019

November 16, 2020 Nov 16, 2020 11/16/20

David Li

Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 3.2 introduces significant build and link time improvements. In this blog post, we detail how the team in The Coalition building Gears 5 tested the compile and link times in three different versions of Visual Studio.

Standard C++20 Modules support with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Cameron DaCamara

Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. It has been some time since our last update regarding C++ Modules conformance. The toolset, project system, and IDE teams have been hard at work to create a first class C++ Modules experience in Visual Studio 2019. There is a lot to share...

Introducing source dependency reporting with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7

August 13, 2020 Aug 13, 2020 08/13/20

Cameron DaCamara

C++20 demands a lot more from the ecosystem than ever before. With C++20 Modules on the horizon the compiler needs to work closely with project systems in order to provide rich information for build dependency gathering and making iterative builds faster for inner-loop development. The compiler and project teams have acknowledged the new ...

Visual Studio Code C++ Extension July 2020 Update: Doxygen comments and Logpoints

July 20, 2020 Jul 20, 2020 07/20/20

Julia Reid

The July 2020 update of the Visual Studio Code C++ extension is now available. This latest release offers brand new features, such as the visualization of Doxygen comments and support for Logpoints while debugging (GDB/LLDB), along with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. To find out more about all the changes, check out our release notes ...

IntelliSense Code Linter for C++

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20

Kyle Reed

Introducing the IntelliSense Code Linter for C++; a preview of "as-you-type" code analysis with fixups. Try it out today in Visual Studio 2019 16.6 Preview 2.