C++ Team Blog

Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 17.6

March 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 03/3/23

Gabor Horvath

Code Analysis Improvements in VS 17.6

High-confidence Lifetime Checks in Visual Studio version 17.5 Preview 2

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22

Gabor Horvath

New High-confidence Lifetimes Checks in Visual Studio 2022

The Future of C++ Compiler Diagnostics in MSVC and Visual Studio

September 16, 2022 Sep 16, 2022 09/16/22

Xiang Fan

We are working hard on improving the diagnostics experience in MSVC and Visual Studio. We began this work in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 and while not everything is ready yet, we would like to share the early progress. Motivation & Principles New C++ features like concepts and ranges present the opportunity for more expressive ...

New std::optional Checks in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 Preview 3

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22

Gabor Horvath

New std::optional Checks in Visual Studio 2022

New Enumeration Checks in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 Preview 3

April 12, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 04/12/22

Gabor Horvath

New Enumeration Checks in Visual Studio 2022

Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 4

October 8, 2021 Oct 8, 2021 10/8/21

Gabor Horvath

Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022

Static Analysis Fixes in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11

September 13, 2021 Sep 13, 2021 09/13/21

Gabor Horvath

List of Code Analysis Fixes in Visual Studio 2019 16.11

Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects

May 10, 2021 May 10, 2021 05/10/21

Kevin Cadieux

AddressSanitizer (ASan) was officially released in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9. We recently used this feature to find and fix a bug in the MSVC compiler itself. To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C SDK, ...