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Simplify Your Code With Rocket Science: C++20’s Spaceship Operator

June 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 06/27/19

Cameron DaCamara

This post is part of a regular series of posts where the C++ product team here at Microsoft and other guests answer questions we have received from customers. The questions can be about anything C++ related: MSVC toolset, the standard language and library, the C++ standards committee, isocpp.org, CppCon, etc. Today's post is by Cameron ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension: May 2019 Update

May 3, 2019 May 3, 2019 05/3/19

Tara Raj

The May 2019 update of the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension is now available to C/C++ extension Insiders. This release includes many new features, including Visual Studio Code Remote Development extensions with C/C++, an IntelliSense Configurations settings UI, and IntelliSense improvements.

Use Boost.Hana via vcpkg with the latest MSVC compiler

June 4, 2018 Jun 4, 2018 06/4/18

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]

Overview 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, customers can now use Boost.Hana with the VS2017 15.7 update after we've applied some ...

C++ Unit Testing Survey (Summer 2016)

July 14, 2016 Jul 14, 2016 07/14/16

Augustin Popa

Hi everyone! The Visual Studio C++ team is conducting a survey to learn more about your C++ unit testing experiences. We'll use the feedback to make improvements to Visual Studio in the future. The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Take the C++ unit testing survey Thanks for your feedback! Cheers, Augustin Popa ...

C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16

Ramkumar Ramesh - MSFT

We’ve been continuing to improve on C++ Edit and Continue (EnC) since we shipped it in Visual Studio 2015 with the default debug engine and the VC 140 toolset. We’ve addressed a fair bit of customer feedback and based on this, I’ll go over the latest developments in C++ EnC for Update 3 (download) and other clarifications in this blog ...

Compiler improvements in VS 2015 Update 3

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

Andrew Pardoe

The C++ compiler team is excited for you to try out the compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. We've made significant progress towards C++ standards conformance between the first release of Visual Studio 2015 and VS 2015 Update 3. Update 3 also has improvements in expression SFINAE, nested namespaces, and generalized range-based for loops. ...

New Options for Managing Character Sets in the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler

February 22, 2016 Feb 22, 2016 02/22/16

Jim Springfield

The Microsoft C/C++ compiler has evolved along with DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32/64-bit Windows. Its support for different characters sets, code pages, and Unicode has also changed during this time. This post will explain how our compiler has worked in the past and also cover some new switches provided by the C/C++ compiler in Visual ...

Compiler improvements in VS 2015 Update 2

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16

Andrew Pardoe

The 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 ...

What's inside a PDB File?

February 8, 2016 Feb 8, 2016 02/8/16

Jim Hogg

Background We have all used the Visual Studio Debugger to step through code, in the hunt for bugs. For C or C++ code, that Debugger relies upon a file, with the extension ".pdb", called the "Program DataBase", or simply "the PDB". The PDB is written by the Linker when you build your program; it contains line-number and symbols ...

What’s inside a PDB File?

February 8, 2016 Feb 8, 2016 02/8/16

Jim Hogg