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Unit Testing and the Future: Announcing the Test Adapter for Google Test

The Visual C++ team is always looking for ways to improve the Visual Studio experience for C++ developers, regardless of their preferred development workflow. This time the focus is on unit testing....

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Using C++ Coroutines with Boost C++ Libraries

Last month, Jim Springfield wrote a great article on using C++ Coroutines with Libuv (a multi-platform C library for asynchronous I/O). This month we will look at how to use coroutines with components...

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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension May 2017 Update

Earlier this month, the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hit another exciting milestone – it has been installed over 1.5 million times since it first shipped in March last year! Thanks to...

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Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey

The Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey is now open. Please take a few minutes to share your experiences, positive or not so positive. If you have not migrated, please let us know why. Share your...

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CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 Preview 2

We’re excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2.  In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the...

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C++ Tutorial: Hello World

Welcome to the C++ Tutorial. In this first C++ tutorial, you will learn how to write (and run!) your first C++ program, “Hello, World!”. Along the way you will learn a little C++ history, see how to...

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C++ Tutorial: Debugging Overview

Welcome to the C++ Tutorial series. In this article, we explore debugging concepts and do some hands-on debugging with Visual Studio 2017. One of the most useful features of an IDE  is the debugger....

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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension June 2017 Update

Today we are excited to announce the release of the June 2017 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update enables semantic-aware member list auto-completion and improves the...

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Security Features in Microsoft Visual C++

Every developer makes mistakes. No matter how careful you are when writing code, you will introduce bugs. And any bug can become a security vulnerability when software that runs in a connected...

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June C++ Link Roundup

C++ link roundup for June: PJ Naughter has created a C++ framework called Toast++ which allows for easy integration of Windows UWP Notification toasts in desktop Win32 applications. The Mozilla Record...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Supports Intel® AVX-512

For this post we welcome John Morgan from Intel Corporation as guest author on the Visual Studio Blog. John has been with Intel for nine years, but his contributions to the Microsoft compiler stretch...

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Precompiled Header (PCH) issues and recommendations

This post written by Mark Hall, Xiang Fan, Yuriy Solodkyy, Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe. Precompiled headers can reduce your compilation times significantly. They’ve worked reliably for...

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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update – time to try out the new...

2 million downloads! This is very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension, considering it was just 4 months ago when we hit the 1 million milestone! Today we are shipping the July 2017...

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Using MinGW and Cygwin with Visual C++ and Open Folder

Building cross-platform C and C++ code is easier than ever with Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 4.  The latest preview improves support for alternative compilers and build environments such as MinGW and...

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Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

This post as well as described diagnostics significantly benefited from the feedback by Mark, Xiang, Stephan, Marian, Gabriel, Ulzii, Steve and Andrew. Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0 release comes with a...

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Trip report: Evolution Working Group at the Summer ISO C++ standards meeting...

The Summer 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting was held in July 10-15 at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to Google, Codeplay, and IBM for sponsoring the event, as well to folks from Mozilla, Collège...

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C++ Unit Testing Updates: Announcing Boost.Test Adapter and Improved Google...

Back in May, the C++ team announced the Test Adapter for Google Test – a Visual Studio extension that allows you to run and manage your Google Test-based unit tests directly in Visual Studio. You can...

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C++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017

This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe The C++ Core Guidelines can help improve your code and decrease your cost of maintenance by offering a wide range of recommendations: encouraging...

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C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3

Visual Studio 2017’s first toolset update, version 15.3, is currently in preview and will be released in its final form very soon. (The toolset consists of the compiler, linker, and libraries. After VS...

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Managing warnings in the C++ Core Guidelines Checker

This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe With several new rules added to the Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, the amount of warnings produced for pre-existing code may...

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