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June 4, 2018Jun 4, 201806/4/18Overview
As we continue to work towards improving the conformance of the MSVC compiler for the C++ community, we would like to enable more C++ libraries, and today we are bringing Boost.Hana to Visual C++. Building on our recent C++ conformance progress,
June 7, 2016Jun 7, 201606/7/16Shareable link: https://aka.ms/versionswitches
Official documentation on docs.microsoft.com.
This blog post written by Gabriel Dos Reis, Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe.
In Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 we are introducing tools to help you control the version of the ISO C++ programming language you depend on and the version you want VC++ to enforce in your projects.
February 11, 2016Feb 11, 201602/11/16The C++ compiler team is excited for you to try out the compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP 1. Since Update 1 we’ve made progress on being Standards-conformant for lot of C++11 and C++14 features. One particularly big milestone is that our standard library in Update 2 supports every C++ Standard Library feature that’s been voted into C++11,
January 20, 2016Jan 20, 201601/20/16We have just released an out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset that brings in some of the community fixes as well as bugs found from testing. This is one of many rapid releases to come in the future, and issues reported from customers will be addressed progressively.
December 4, 2015Dec 4, 201512/4/15[This post was written by Dave Bartolomeo and the Clang/C2 feature crew]
One of the challenges with developing and maintaining cross-platform C++ code is dealing with different C++ compilers for different platforms. You write some code that builds fine with the Visual C++ compiler for your Windows-targeting build,
December 3, 2015Dec 3, 201512/3/15[This post was written by Andrew Pardoe and Neil MacIntosh]
Update: The CppCoreCheck tools are now part of VS 2017: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/10/12/cppcorecheck.
Back in September at CppCon 2015 Neil announced that we would be shipping new code analysis tools for C++ that would enforce some of the rules in the C++ Core Guidelines.
December 3, 2015Dec 3, 201512/3/15点这里看中文版
[This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis and Andrew Pardoe]
Update: See this post on using the Standard Library via modules in MSVC.
The VC++ team is excited to preview a new feature in VS 2015 Update 1: The first experimental implementation of A Module System for C++,
April 16, 2014Apr 16, 201404/16/14Only 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,
February 18, 2014Feb 18, 201402/18/14Herb Sutter posted highlights from the Winter ISO C++ meeting held last week in sunny Issaquah, WA:
The major work of this meeting was to complete processing of the national body comments received in last summer’s comment ballot for the upcoming C++14 standard.
November 18, 2013Nov 18, 201311/18/13Last year in November, we released an out-of-band customer technology preview (CTP) of the Visual C++ compiler. It contained preview versions of C++11 features which we subsequently fully released in Visual Studio 2012. At that time, and at GoingNative 2013 this year,
