Showing results for August 2016 - C++ Team Blog

Aug 29, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

August Update for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension

Ankit Asthana
Ankit Asthana

At //Build this year we launched the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. Keeping with the monthly release cadence and goal to continuously respond to your feedback, this August update introduces the following features: • Debug your Windows applications using Visual Studio Code • Improve your code-formatting experience with clang-format • Impro...

C++
Aug 24, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

C++14/17 Features and STL Fixes in VS “15” Preview 4

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT

Visual Studio "15" Preview 4 is now available, with a new installer.  (VS "15" is an IDE version number, not a year.  It's the next major version after VS 2015, which was IDE version 14.  VS has different numbers for its year branding, IDE version, and C++ compiler version.)  All of the features and fixes in VS 2015 Update 3 (including optimizer i...

C++
Aug 23, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub

EricMittelette
EricMittelette

We are delighted to announce that the Visual C++ Team just published an implementation of range-v3 on the Microsoft GitHub repo. This contribution comes hot on the heels of our recent work to improve expression SFINAE on our Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 VC++ compiler . This is the first implementation of the Range TS running in MSVC. In “Ranges for...

Announcement
Aug 22, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

The Lightweight Visual Studio 2017 Installer

Adam Welch (MSFT)
Adam Welch (MSFT)

⏱This post was updated on 3/7/2017 for the Visual Studio 2017 release. As many of you may have already seen, we have introduced a streamlined Visual Studio Installer for Visual Studio 2017 to give you more control of what you install.  What began as the separation of the C++ tools for Visual Studio 2015 has now become a workload-based installati...

C++
Aug 12, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

STL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 3

Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT

VS 2015 Update 3 was released over a month ago.  While its release notes mentioned some STL fixes, here's a comprehensive list.  (Previous changelogs: RTM Part 1, RTM Part 2, Update 1, Update 2 features, and Update 2 fixes.)  STL Features  /std:c++latest enables the following new features: P0025R1 "clamp()", P0185R1 "is_swappable, is_nothrow_...

C++
Aug 2, 2016
Post comments count0
Post likes count0

C/C++ Cloud Services Survey

Ankit Asthana
Ankit Asthana

Hi everyone, The  C++ team is conducting a survey to better understand cloud services needs for C++ developers across all platforms. The information you provide will be used to improve the experience for C++ developers  connecting to cloud services. The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Take the C/C++ Cloud Services survey Tha...

C++