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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 ...

C++ Native Multi-Targeting

December 8, 2009 Dec 8, 2009 12/8/09

Visual CPP Team

Instructions for native multitargeting in VS2017 can be found here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/02/24/stuck-on-an-older-toolset-version-move-to-visual-studio-2015-without-upgrading-your-toolset/ Hello, my name is Li Shao. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test on the C++ team. For the past two years, I have been ...

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