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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...

Visual C++ docs: the future is… soon!

November 8, 2016 Nov 8, 2016 11/8/16
EricMittelette
We on the Visual C++ documentation team are pleased to announce some changes to the API reference content in the following Visual C++ libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, AMP, and ConcRT. Since the beginning of MSDN online, the Visual C++ libraries have documented each class member, free function, macro, enum, and property on a separate web page. While ...

Parallel STL – Democratizing Parallelism in C++

April 16, 2014 Apr 16, 2014 04/16/14
Artur Laksberg
Only 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, Intel's Threading Building Blocks, OpenMP or OpenACC if you prefer a pragma-style approach, OpenCL for ...

STL Resources on MSDN

January 21, 2014 Jan 21, 2014 01/21/14
Eric Battalio
Before reviewing the excellent standard template library resources on MSDN (including Channel 9), did you know Visual Studio 2013.1 (Update 1) is available now? Brian Harry writes about the release on his blog, mentioning that the release is smaller and focused on working better with IE versions prior to IE 10. It is worth a read. You can grab...

C99 library support in Visual Studio 2013

July 19, 2013 Jul 19, 2013 07/19/13
Pat Brenner MSFT
Hello, 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, we added declarations and implementations for missing functions in the following headers: math.h, ctype.h, wctype.h, stdio.h, ...

do-while, casts, ODR, variadic templates – Core C++, Part 8

February 7, 2013 Feb 7, 2013 02/7/13
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
Part 8 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available.  In this part, I covered several topics: why I avoid do-while loops, how C and C++ casts behave and why they're dangerous, what the One Definition Rule is and how to follow it, and how my toy program to sort arrays with variadic templates works.For ...

Template Argument Deduction – Core C++, Part 2

July 16, 2012 Jul 16, 2012 07/16/12
Visual CPP Team
Part 2 of my third video lecture series (covering the C++ Core Language) is now available.  In this part, I took an hour to explore template argument deduction, including what "non-deduced contexts" are - and how they can be used to your advantage!  For reference, here are all of the links to my video lectures, plus my GoingNative ...

What Are SCARY Iterators?

April 6, 2012 Apr 6, 2012 04/6/12
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Hi there! I’m Diego Dagum, a Program Manager with the Visual C++ team. As Stephan announced last September when Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview was released, our STL implementation comes with SCARY iterators. On Stephan’s words, ”(…) as permitted but not required by the C++11 Standard, SCARY ...

Announcing Wrox’s Professional C++, 2nd Edition

October 10, 2011 Oct 10, 2011 10/10/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Greetings! I’m Marc Gregoire, a Microsoft MVP VC++ since 2007, and I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve finished work on my book “Professional C++, Second Edition”. This second edition includes the latest C++ standard, C++11, and is based on the great first edition written by Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper. The book is ...