Visual Studio “15” Preview Compilers Feedback
There is a new Connect Form for reporting issues with Visual Studio “15” Preview compilers. If you are not using the Visual Studio IDE, you can report issues using this form. If you are using the IDE,...
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Bring your C++ codebase to Visual Studio with “Open Folder”
Welcome to Visual Studio ’15’ Preview 5! Starting with this release, Visual Studio supports opening folders containing source code without the need to create any solutions or projects. This makes it a...
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C++ compiler diagnostics improvements in VS “15” RC
This post written by Andrew Marino and Andrew Pardoe Visual C++ in VS “15” RC now allows you to see where errors are in a line of code—the column number—as opposed to just showing the line number. As...
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C++ IntelliSense Improvements – Predictive IntelliSense & Filtering
IntelliSense is one of the most commonly used features in Visual Studio. With it, developers can write code more efficiently and learn more about their codebase at the same time. In a sense,...
View ArticleCMake support in Visual Studio
This article describes the current proof-of-concept support for CMake in Visual Studio. As we evolve the experience in upcoming preview releases, we will continue to update the content here. What is...
View ArticleVisual C++ Compiler Version
This blog was written by Gabriel Dos Reis and Mark Levine. Starting with VS “15” Preview 5, the Visual C++ Team is monotonically updating the value of the built-in preprocessor macro _MSC_VER at every...
View ArticleVisual Studio “15” Preview 5 Now Available
Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is now available. Read the official announcement on the Visual Studio blog. Highlights for C++ developers include: Faster project load, coding, and debugging for C++. The...
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Faster C++ solution load with VS “15”
The Visual C++ product has had projects ever since its inception. Visual C++ had its own IDE up through Visual Studio 6. Starting in Visual Studio .NET, C++ moved to a new IDE shared by Visual Basic,...
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Faster C++ build cycle in VS “15” with /Debug:fastlink
Continuing with our goal of further improving developer productivity with Visual Studio “15” there have been major investments made for also improving incremental developer builds. The developer...
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Compiler Tools Layout in Visual Studio “15”
This post was written by Andrew Pardoe, Mark Levine, and Iyyappa Murugandi. You’ll see many improvements for C++ developers in Visual Studio “15” as soon as you load your first project. But some of the...
View ArticleC++14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 5
Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is now available. (As our previous changelog explained, VS “15” is an IDE version number, not a year. It’s the next major version after VS 2015, which was IDE version 14....
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C++ Core Check code analysis is included with VS “15”
Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 now includes the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers. This means you no longer have to install the C++ Core Check package from NuGet to check your code against rules and profiles...
View ArticleC++/WinRT Available on GitHub
C++/WinRT is now available on GitHub. This is the future of the Modern C++ project and the first public preview coming officially from Microsoft. https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt C++/WinRT is a...
View ArticleCppRestSDK 2.9.0 is available on GitHub
We are delighted to announce a new version of CppRestSDK (Casablanca) 2.9.0, this new version available on GitHub introduces new features and fixes issues reported on the 2.8.0 version. The C++ REST...
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Building your C++ application with Visual Studio Code
Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of requests with respect to adding capability to Visual Studio Code to allow developers to build their C/C++ application. The task extensibility in Visual...
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Recommendations to speed C++ builds in Visual Studio
In this blog, I will discuss features, techniques and tools you can use to reduce build time for C++ projects. The primary focus of this post is to improve developer build time for the Debug...
View ArticleVcpkg updates: Static linking is now available
One month ago, we announced the availability of Vcpkg a command line tool to easily acquire and build open source C++ lib and consume it in Visual Studio 2015. The initial release provided only dynamic...
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Developing Linux C++ applications with Azure Docker containers
In recent years, Visual Studio has added new features and experiences to allow developers to develop their C++ applications for non-Windows platforms such as Android, iOS and more recently Linux. One...
View ArticleVisual C++ docs: the future is… soon!
We on the Visual C++ documentation team are pleased to announce some changes to the API reference content in the following Visual C++ libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, AMP, and ConcRT. Since the beginning of...
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Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance
This post was written by Gabriel Dos Reis, Phil Christensen, and Andrew Pardoe The Visual C++ Team is excited to announce that the compiler in Visual Studio 2017 RC will feature a mode much closer to...
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