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Visual Studio “14” CTP
Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog . Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an...
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Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP
In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their...
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C++14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In Visual Studio 14 CTP1
I'm Microsoft's STL maintainer, and once again we've got about a year's worth of work to tell you about. ("We" means P.J. Plauger of Dinkumware for most features, myself for most fixes and Library...
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Bugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Free functions can be called using curly braces instead of parentheses. ( link ) When attempting to expand a recursive...
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The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring
(This is the first of two articles on changes to the C Runtime (CRT) in the Visual Studio "14" CTP. This article discusses the major architectural changes to the libraries; the second article will...
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C++11/14 Feature Tables For Visual Studio 14 CTP1
As I promised last week in my post about the STL changes in VS14 CTP1 , here are tables listing the implementation status of C++11/14 Core Language/Standard Library features. First, let's look at the...
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Project Support for Natvis
The past two releases of Visual Studio have evolved the Natvis format to allow developers to easily visualize their debug data inside the VC++ expression evaluator. The first Visual Studio “14” CTP...
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Compiler Switch Deprecation/Removal Changes in Visual Studio “14”
In the upcoming release of Visual Studio, we are making some changes to the Visual C++ compiler switches. Two areas are impacted by these changes, 1) projects built with certain variations of /clr and...
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C Runtime (CRT) Features, Fixes, and Breaking Changes in Visual Studio 14 CTP1
(This is the second of two articles on changes to the C Runtime (CRT) in the Visual Studio "14" CTP. The first article, The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring , covered the major architectural changes...
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C++ REST SDK WebSocket client
With the C++ REST SDK 2.1 release , we are excited to announce support for client side WebSockets across multiple platforms (Linux, OSX, iOS, Windows Desktop and Store). This is a relatively new...
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Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC
Hello again! Three months have passed since we talked about what's new for Graphics Development in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 . Since then the team has been working to bring even more Graphics...
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VC++ Bytes on Channel 9
If you’d like to get an idea of what new features are in store for you in the Visual Studio “14” CTP, be sure to check out the VC++ Bytes series on Channel 9! The series is dedicated to showcasing new...
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CTP2 for Visual Studio "14" Now Available
You have probably already heard, but CTP2 for Visual Studio "14" is now available. Download Visual Studio "14" CTP2 (also available on MSDN ). You could save time and use the VM in Azure . Learn more...
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Building 8.1 apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store) using Visual Studio “14”...
Raman Sharma Raman Sharma 2 4 2014-07-09T18:42:00Z 2014-07-09T18:42:00Z 1 647 3690 30 8 4329 15.00 Clean Clean false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...(read more)
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Using Boost Libraries in Windows Store and Phone Applications
Boost contains a lot of high quality cross platform C++ libraries. Some of the libraries in Boost use APIs that aren’t available in Windows Store and Phone applications. To help improve the experience...
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Visual C++ Bytes Redux
Be sure to check out the third episode of the current season of VC++ Bytes, featuring demos for a slew of additional productivity features added to Visual Studio “14” CTP 2! Check out the video (and...
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C++ Runtime for Sideloaded Windows 8.1 apps
A while ago we posted about how the distribution and deployment of C++ Runtime as a dependency was handled through the Windows Store. That mechanism works for apps that are themselves distributed...
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Bugs Fixed in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Calling dispose on a WinRT object could cause a crash. Using uniform initialization with an overloaded equality operator...
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DirectX 12
For Friday, how about more information about DirectX 12 announced at GDC earlier this week? DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one...
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Linker Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2
For developer scenarios, linking takes the lion's share of the application's build time. From our investigation we know that the Visual C++ linker spends a large fraction of its time in preparing,...
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