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February 6, 2018Feb 6, 201802/6/18We are happy to announce a new feature for vcpkg in version 0.0.103: Feature Packages.
Vcpkg is a package manager to help acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows; vcpkg currently offers over 600 C++ libraries available for VS2017 and VS2015.
January 16, 2018Jan 16, 201801/16/18If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about vcpkg, check out our initial post.
We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact –survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team.
November 1, 2016Nov 1, 201611/1/16One month ago, we announced the availability of Vcpkg a command line tool to easily acquire and build open source C++ lib and consume it in Visual Studio 2015. The initial release provided only dynamic link libraries, but we heard your feedback,
February 13, 2015Feb 13, 201502/13/15Many 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.
November 5, 2013Nov 5, 201311/5/13Most good apps these days provide some kind of connected experience whether it is the ability to connect to existing popular web services (like Facebook, Twitter, SkyDrive etc.) or building their own custom backend based somewhere in the cloud. Visual Studio 2013 provides support for both these scenarios for C++ developers.
September 30, 2013Sep 30, 201309/30/13The Visual C++ team wants to better understand how you use libraries in your day-to-day development work. Whether you’re publishing libraries, finding libraries that work on the Microsoft platforms for which you’re building your apps, or integrating libraries into your project and build systems,
July 19, 2013Jul 19, 201307/19/13Hello, I’m Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ Libraries team. In this blog post I want to share some information about the C99 support added to the C run-time library in Visual Studio 2013.
To summarize,
July 8, 2013Jul 8, 201307/8/13April 2017 update
Regarding our work on migration to VC2015 last year, we decided to remove the warning about MBCS deprecation.We hear you and understand that too many “old and large” MFC projects depend on it and it is too costly for large projects to move to Unicode.
June 18, 2013Jun 18, 201306/18/13Howdy!
Today I thought I’d start explaining how NuGet supports C/C++ packages under the covers, and look into how one could (theoretically) manually construct a package without using the CoApp PowerShell tools.
As I mentioned before,
April 26, 2013Apr 26, 201304/26/13The wait is over. NuGet support for C++ projects is here.
Quick Links
• NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733
• CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet packages: http://coapp.org/releases
• Some C++ NuGet packages to try out:
