{"id":10685,"date":"2016-10-05T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:04:39","slug":"visual-studio-15-preview-5-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-studio-15-preview-5-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio &#8220;15&#8221; Preview 5 Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vs\/15\/preview\/vs_enterprise\">Visual Studio &#8220;15&#8221; Preview 5<\/a> is now available.\u00a0Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2016\/10\/05\/announcing-visual-studio-15-preview-5\/\">official announcement<\/a> on the Visual Studio blog.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for C++ developers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faster project load, coding, and debugging for C++<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>C++ Core Checkers<\/strong> for enforcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/isocpp\/CppCoreGuidelines\">C++ Core Guidelines<\/a> are now distributed with Visual Studio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhanced support for C++11 and C++14 features<\/strong>, as well as preliminary support for certain features expected to be in the C++17 standard. This release includes\u00a0<strong>complete support for generalized constexpr<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements, fixes and additions to the <strong>Standard Template Library<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced <strong>C++ code generation of loops<\/strong> and <strong>C++ code security<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IntelliSense Filters and Experimental C++ Predictive IntelliSense<\/strong> pare another way to narrow down the results in the list by specific kinds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Navigate To (now known as Go To) and Find All References<\/strong> have been overhauled to improve the code navigation experience<\/li>\n<li>The popular extension <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/725025cf-7067-45c2-8d01-1e0fd359ae6e\">Visual C++ for Linux Development<\/a><\/strong> is now part of Visual Studio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>C++ support in \u201cOpen Folder\u201d<\/strong> as well as <strong>proof-of-concept CMake support.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><i>And more&#8230;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the complete list of everything in this release, along with some known issues, look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/releasenotes\/vs15-relnotes\">Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview 5 Release Notes page<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/productinfo\/visual-studio-15-FAQ\">Preview 5 FAQ<\/a>\u00a0provides answers for common questions.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we welcome your feedback. Try the report a problem feature in the IDE to share feedback on Visual Studio and check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/index.html\">developer community portal view<\/a>. <span>If you are not using the Visual Studio IDE, you can report issues using the<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/Feedback\/LoadSubmitFeedbackForm?FormID=6410\">Connect Form for reporting issues<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For suggestions, let us know through <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\">UserVoice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to your feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio &#8220;15&#8221; Preview 5 is now available.\u00a0Read the official announcement on the Visual Studio blog. Highlights for C++ developers include: Faster project load, coding, and debugging for C++. 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