C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
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.
January 20, 2016Jan 20, 201601/20/16Introduction
This post is about Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX) support in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2015; content provided by Gautham Beeraka, George Kuan, and Juan Rodriguez from Intel Corporation.
Overview
Update 1 for Visual Studio 2015 was announced on November 30, 2015.
December 15, 2015Dec 15, 201512/15/15CMake is a cross-platform project generator that enables reuse of shared C++ code across multiple IDE and project systems.
We made a change to CMake to support our Android toolchain in Visual Studio. With this change, you can take your existing CMake project targetting Android,
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,
October 21, 2015Oct 21, 201510/21/15As announced in an earlier blog post, Visual Studio 2015 hosts a new set of memory profiling tools to help address and fix memory issues within your applications. The new debug-time profiler runs during your debugging session and allows you to take snapshots anytime,
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,
August 9, 2013Aug 9, 201308/9/13
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.
This post examines the optimization called Dead-Code-Elimination, which I’ll abbreviate to DCE. It does what it says: discards any calculations whose results are not actually used by the program.
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, we added declarations and implementations for missing functions in the following headers: math.h,
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 12, 2013Jun 12, 201306/12/13If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.
This post explains the flow of data within the Visual C++ compiler – starting with our C++ source program, and ending with a corresponding binary program.
