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Finding build bottlenecks with C++ Build Insights

April 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020 04/23/20
shikhakaul
C++ Build Insights offers more than one way to investigate your C++ build times. In this article, we discuss two methods that you can use to identify bottlenecks in your builds: manually by using the vcperf analysis tool, or programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK. We present a case study that shows how to use these tools to speed ...

GSL 3.0.0 Release (C++)

April 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020 04/23/20
shikhakaul
Version 3.0.0 of Microsoft’s implementation of the C++ Core Guidelines Support Library (GSL) is now available for you to download on the releases page. Microsoft’s implementation of gsl::span has played a pivotal role in the standardization of span for C++20. However, the standard does not provide any runtime checking guarantees for ...

Embedded Fonts: Custom Fonts in Xamarin.Forms

April 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020 04/23/20
shikhakaul
There are a number of posts about using custom fonts in Xamarin.Forms. However, embedded fonts definitely takes the cake. No more platform-specific handling of fonts and adding font files in three different projects. Just one file and an attribute in your shared code and your font is ready to go. In this post we will see how to use it in ...

Sync Mobile Apps with the Cloud via Change Tracking API

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20
shikhakaul
If you are creating a mobile app that will work sending data back and forth from the cloud (I guess that 99% of the apps fall into this use case), you will have at some point the need to sync data between the app and the cloud itself...

See What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 3!

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20
shikhakaul
Today we are excited to reveal some new features in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 3. Despite our challenges of learning how to work from home such as interruptions by kids, pets and internet blips, we continue to deliver new features to you. We are also eagerly preparing for our first virtual Build 2020 conference in May. We’d ...

Porting a C++/CLI Project to .NET Core

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20
shikhakaul
One of the new features of Visual Studio 2019 (beginning with version 16.4) and .NET Core 3.1 is the ability to build C++/CLI projects targeting .NET Core. This can be done either directly with cl.exe and link.exe (using the new /clr:netcore option) or via MSBuild (using <CLRSupport>NetCore</CLRSupport>). In this post, I’...

Balancing work on GC threads (.NET)

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20
shikhakaul
In Server GC, each GC thread will work on its heap in parallel (that’s a simplistic view and is not necessarily true for all phases but on the high level it’s exact the idea of a parallel GC). So that alone means work is already split between GC threads. But because GC work for some stages can only proceed after all threads are done with ...