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Sign Up For Pure Virtual C++ Conference 2020

Sy BrandApril 16, 2020Apr 16, 202004/16/20

Pure Virtual C++ 2020 is a free single-track one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. It is taking place on Thursday 30th April 2020 from 14:30 to 23:00 UTC. Sign up on the event website. All talks will be pre-recorded and streamed on YouTube Live with a live Q&A session with the speakers. After the event, the talks will

GSL 3.0.0 Release

Jordan MaplesApril 16, 2020Apr 16, 202004/16/20

GSL 3.0.0 Release Version 3.0.0 of Microsoft's implementation of the C++ Core Guidelines Support Library (GSL) is now available for you to download on the releases page. Microsoft’s implementation of gsl::span has played a pivotal role in the standardization of span for C++20. However, the standard does not provide any runtime checking guar

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New templates for debugging CMake projects on remote systems and WSL in Visual Studio 2019

ErikaApril 3, 2020Apr 3, 202004/3/20

We heard your feedback that it can be difficult to configure debugging sessions on remote Linux systems or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 we introduced a new debugging template to simplify debugging with gdb. The new cppgdb template We heard your feedback that the old d

Announcing full support for a C/C++ conformant preprocessor in MSVC

Elnar DakeshovMarch 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20

We are excited to announce full support for a conformant preprocessor in the MSVC toolset starting with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2. Since the original blog post announcing preprocessor conformance changes, we’ve come a long way and are now ready to announce the completion of the C/C++ conformant preprocessor and its move to

Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK

Kevin CadieuxMarch 6, 2020Mar 6, 202003/6/20

We're happy to announce today the release of the C++ Build Insights SDK, a framework that gives you access to MSVC build time information via C and C++ APIs. To accompany this release, we are making vcperf open source on GitHub. Because vcperf itself is built with the SDK, you can use it as a reference when developing your own tools. We’re e

Qt to support Visual Studio Linux projects

ErikaFebruary 20, 2020Feb 20, 202002/20/20

Qt is a popular cross-platform framework for application development and user interface design. Its various libraries and toolsets can be used to create, test, and deploy applications that target multiple platforms and operating systems including Linux, Windows, macOS and embedded/microcontroller systems. Qt recently announced its plan to supp

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JCC Erratum Mitigation in MSVC

Gautham Beeraka (Intel Americas Inc)February 4, 2020Feb 4, 202002/4/20

The content of this blog was provided by Gautham Beeraka from Intel Corporation. Intel recently announced Jump Conditional Code (JCC) Erratum which can occur in some of its processors. The MSVC team has been working with Intel to provide a software fix in the compiler to mitigate the performance impact of the microcode update that prevents th

Improve Parallelism in MSBuild

Felix HuangJanuary 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20

Starting in Visual Studio 2019 16.3, we have been adding features to improve build parallelism.

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Versions 16.3 and 16.4

Kevin CadieuxJanuary 28, 2020Jan 28, 202001/28/20

Versions 16.3 and 16.4 of Visual Studio 2019 brought many new improvements in code generation quality, build throughput, and security. If you still haven’t downloaded your copy, here is a brief overview of what you’ve been missing out on. Demonstration of C++ Build Insights, a new set of build analysis tools in Visual Studio 2019 ve

C++ Modules conformance improvements with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 16.5

Cameron DaCamaraJanuary 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20

C++20 is right around the corner. Along with the new standard comes the much anticipated Modules feature! The compiler team initially announced that we were working on the Modules TS back in 2017 and since then we have been hard at work improving the feature and improving compiler conformance around this feature. We finally feel it is time to

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