October 2014 | C++ Team Blog

CppCon Videos Available

Eric BattalioOctober 20, 2014Oct 20, 201410/20/14

In case you missed CppCon or attended but missed a few sessions (or want to review), videos for most of the talks are available on You Tube. There is plenty there for developers of all experience and temperament including: Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available on GitHub.

Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Release Candidate

Eric BattalioOctober 16, 2014Oct 16, 201410/16/14

The Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013 update 4 is here. Visit the KB for all the details!

HiLo Desktop sample updated

Douglas Erickson [MSFT]October 9, 2014Oct 9, 201410/9/14

Hey, all! Doug Erickson from the Visual Studio content and samples team here. We’ve made a couple spot fixes to the popular HiLo C++ sample, and converted it to a Visual Studio 2013 project. Hopefully, this will clear up the issues many of you have been having. If you encounter other issues, leave us feedback in the comments (here

Visual Studio 2010 for C++ Development Survey Follow Up

Eric BattalioOctober 8, 2014Oct 8, 201410/8/14

Thanks to the over hundreds of developers who completed our upgrade survey and the select group that agreed to be contacted and spoke to us 1:1. As always, we appreciate the breadth of participants and helpfulness of responses.Three of the top upgrade blockers are cost, breaking changes and third-party library compatibility. One thing we learn

C++ Debugging Improvements in Visual Studio "14"

Visual CPP TeamOctober 6, 2014Oct 6, 201410/6/14

In Visual Studio 2015 we’ve introduced two improvements to the C++ debugging experience to address pain points that we’ve heard from you. Improved startup performance when launching applications (F5), and reduced the chance functions called from the Watch or Immediate windows deadlocking. Improved startup performance on F

C++ Debugging Improvements in Visual Studio “14”

Andrew B Hall - MSFTOctober 6, 2014Oct 6, 201410/6/14

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