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Visual Studio Build Tools now include the VS2017 and VS2015 MSVC Toolsets

November 2, 2017 Nov 2, 2017 11/2/17
Augustin Popa
点这里看中文版 The Visual C++ Build tools have been a huge success since we introduced them two years ago. The C++ Build Tools were originally released as a standalone installer that only laid down the tools required to build C++ projects without installing the Visual Studio IDE. Many developers have found them useful in environments...

Try out the latest C++ compiler toolset without waiting for the next update of Visual Studio

February 16, 2016 Feb 16, 2016 02/16/16
Andrew Pardoe
Updated 22 Apr 2016: The NuGet package is now being uploaded daily. The payload doesn't change every day but you should see new bug fixes and/or feature updates every five days or so. See the blog post announcement here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/04/26/stay-up-to-date-with-the-visual-c-tools-on-nuget. Last November we ...

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 ...