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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 Studio...
View ArticleDid 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....
View ArticleTop 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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Visual Studio 2015 Update 1: New Experimental Feature – MPX
Introduction 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...
View ArticleClang with Microsoft CodeGen (January 2016) released
We 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,...
View ArticleVS 2015 Update 2’s STL is C++17-so-far Feature Complete
In VS 2015 Update 2, we’ve implemented every C++ Standard Library feature that’s been voted into C++11, C++14, and the C++17-so-far Working Paper N4567. (See the end of this post for Update 2...
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Top 10 reasons to use Visual Studio for C++ Android Development!
Visual Studio: C++ cross-platform mobile solution Visual Studio (download here) is fast becoming a cross-platform C++ IDE. Our vision is for Visual Studio to become the IDE of choice for your...
View ArticleYour Version Control Experiences
The Visual C++ Team team would like to learn more about your source code management experiences across development tools, languages (especially C/C++), target platforms and project types. Please take a...
View ArticleWhat’s inside a PDB File?
Background We have all used the Visual Studio Debugger to step through code, in the hunt for bugs. For C or C++ code, that Debugger relies upon a file, with the extension “.pdb”, called the “Program...
View ArticleCompiler improvements in VS 2015 Update 2 CTP 1
The C++ compiler team is excited for you to try out the compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP 1. Since Update 1 we’ve made progress on being Standards-conformant for lot of C++11 and C++14...
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Natvis for C++/CLI Available to Preview in VS2015 Update 2
In Visual Studio 2012 the native debugger significantly improved with the addition of native visualizers (natvis) as part of a major debug engine overhaul. Adding C++/CLI code to your project would...
View ArticleDo You Develop Games?
Or have you worked on a game recently? If so, please share some details about your experience. The Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current game development experience....
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Try out the latest C++ compiler toolset without waiting for the next update...
Last November we announced a prerelease of the Visual C++ Build Tools, a standalone C++ installer for build environments. We asked you for feedback on the experience and truly appreciate the great...
View ArticleNew Options for Managing Character Sets in the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
The Microsoft C/C++ compiler has evolved along with DOS, 16-bit Windows, and 32/64-bit Windows. Its support for different characters sets, code pages, and Unicode has also changed during this time....
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Stuck on an older toolset version? Move to Visual Studio 2015 without...
Are you currently developing your C++ projects in an older version of Visual Studio? If your reasons for avoiding the all-new features in VS 2015 are covered next, then read on: this post may have good...
View ArticleDeveloping C++ cross-platform projects with CMake?
Do you develop cross-platform C++ applications or libraries? In this short survey, the Microsoft Visual Studio team would like to learn more about your current edit-build-debug experience. This survey...
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Visual C++ for Linux Development
Visual C++ for Linux Development Today we’re making a new extension available that enables C++ development in Visual Studio for Linux. With this extension you can author C++ code for Linux servers,...
View ArticleAnnouncing the VC++ 2015 Migration Virtual Development Laboratory
The Visual C++ Team is pleased to announce the VC++ 2015 Migration Virtual Development Laboratory (Virtual DevLab) which will run from April 18th through September 30th of this year. A Virtual DevLab...
View ArticleUserVoice Suggestions Completed in Visual Studio 2015
We continue to receive many helpful suggestions and comments from the community on the Visual Studio UserVoice site. Your contributions help us improve Visual Studio and the C++ experience for...
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