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Use the official Boost.Hana with MSVC 2017 Update 8 compiler

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18
Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]
We would like to share a progress update to our previous announcement regarding enabling Boost.Hana with MSVC compiler. Just as a quick background, Louis Dionne, the Boost.Hana author, and us have jointly agreed to provide a version of Boost.Hana in vcpkg to promote usage of the library among more C++ users from the Visual C++ community. We've...

Announcing: MSVC Conforms to the C++ Standard

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]
Achieving conformance with the C++ Standards has been a long road for the Visual C++ team. If you've seen us at any conferences lately, you've probably seen the MSVC Conformance slide. (You can grab a copy of the slide or watch the 2017 CppCon talk here.) Finishing the features on this slide – which includes features from C++11, C++14, and C...

Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

July 21, 2017 Jul 21, 2017 07/21/17
Yuriy Solodkyy
This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a number of improvements to the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler's diagnostics. Most of these improvements are in response to the diagnostics ...