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Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Available
Hello. Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Release Candidate ( known issues ) is available now. It includes a number of goodies for C++ developers, but before we take a look, the Visual C++ team wants to thank...
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Announcing Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 – standalone C++ tools for build...
Together with the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, we’re also announcing a new way of acquiring the C++ tools: as a standalone installer that only lays down the tools required to build...
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Introducing C++ Experimental Editor Tools!
Hello C++ World! At various times during our development cycle here in the C++ IDE, our developers start working on features that we believe can bring a lot of value to customers, but sometimes we just...
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Java debugging and language support in Visual Studio for Android
As part of our continued efforts to make Visual Studio a productive environment for developing mobile applications we’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC adds support for...
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New, Improved, and Faster Database Engine
Hello C++ World! As a follow up to my previous post on our experimental features, I wanted to briefly showcase the “Improved Database Engine” experience. In this short 90-second video , see how taking...
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Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension
Earlier this year I wrote a post on how you could debug C++ code on Linux from Visual Studio. It was a bit cumbersome, but it was doable. Today we are releasing the Visual Studio GDB Debugger extension...
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Coroutines in Visual Studio 2015 - Update 1
In preview of Visual Studio 2015, we introduced Coroutines for C++, see these blog post for an introduction and here . You can also look at the CPPCon 2015 talk about C++ Coroutines here . We continue...
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Improvements for C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
In Visual Studio 2015 RTM we announced Edit and Continue (EnC) support for both X86 and X64 C++ in the default Debug Engine with the VC++ 2015 toolset (v140) . Over the past couple months, we’ve been...
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Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Is Here
Did you miss the Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 announcement yesterday on the Visual Studio blog? Find the release notes here Install C2/CLang support from the breadcrumb template under File > New >...
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Constexpr in VS2015 Update 1
Visual Studio 2015 RTM shipped with support for constant expressions as specified in the C++11 language standard. The release received lots of excellent feedback from our users and the C++ community....
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Partial Support for Expression SFINAE in VS 2015 Update 1
In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, we added partial support for C++11 core language feature Expression SFINAE. What is SFINAE? SFINAE is an acronym for ‘Substitution Failure Is Not An Error’. The idea is...
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C++ Modules in VS 2015 Update 1
[This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis and Andrew Pardoe] The VC++ team is excited to preview a new feature in VS 2015 Update 1: The first experimental implementation of A Module System for C++ ,...
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C++ Core Guidelines Checkers available for VS 2015 Update 1
[This post was written by Andrew Pardoe and Neil MacIntosh] Back in September at CppCon 2015 Neil announced that we would be shipping new code analysis tools for C++ that would enforce some of the...
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Clang with Microsoft CodeGen in VS 2015 Update 1
[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...
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STL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 1
VS 2015 Update 1 is now available , and it contains numerous STL fixes. (This is the first time since 2010 SP1 that we've shipped STL fixes outside of a major version. Nothing was severely broken in...
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Using Visual Studio 2015 to debug an Android app built with Marmalade
For this blog post, we welcome Alex Baude of Marmalade ( https://www.madewithmarmalade.com ) as a guest author on our blog. His team’s most recent release of Marmalade Platform now supports Visual...
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Did You See: Improve Your Build Times With IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015
Did you see this post Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 on the Visual Studio blog? IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and...
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Support for Android CMake projects in Visual Studio
CMake 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 ....
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Top Posts for 2015
With the end of 2015 nearing, we wanted to take a moment to thank each of you for your feedback, enthusiasm and continued support of C++ and Visual Studio. We hope your year was productive and that...
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