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New Libraries

• Nowide: Standard library functions with UTF-8 API on Windows, from Artyom Beilis.
• StaticString: A dynamically resizable string of characters with compile-time fixed capacity and contiguous embedded storage, from Vinnie Falco and Krystian Stasiowski

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How to Use C++ for Azure Storage

by Bartlomiej Filipek

Blob storage is an object storage service you use in Azure. It is designed for storing large volumes of unstructured data, including text, binary data, images, and text. In this service, your data is stored in containerized blobs with a directory-like structure. You can use blob storage to ensure flexible access to storage, high availability, and data consistency. Read on to learn how you can use C++ with Azure storage...

Finding build bottlenecks with C++ Build Insights

by Kevin Cadieux

C++ Build Insights offers more than one way to investigate your C++ build times. In this article, we discuss two methods that you can use to identify bottlenecks in your builds: manually by using the vcperf analysis tool, or programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK. We present a case study that shows how to use these tools to speed up the Git for Windows open source project. We hope these tutorials will come in handy when analyzing your own builds...

Microsoft GSL v3.0.0 Released

by Jordan Maples

Here are some highlights:

• New unsigned implementation of gsl::span
• New implementation of gsl::span_iterator
• Contract violations result in termination
• Additional CMake support...

ReSharper C++ 2020.1: New C++20 Features

by Elvira Mustafina

Here is a quick overview of the main highlights. If you are interested in the specific details, please read on:

• Better C++20 support, including constrained type placeholders, abbreviated function templates, using enum declarations, and template syntax for lambdas.
• New inspections with quick-fixes.
• Rearrange Code and Complete Statement.
• For game developers, ReSharper C++ introduces initial support for the High Level Shading Language and adheres more closely to the Unreal Engine guidelines.

PVS-Studio 7.07

by Svyatoslav Razmyslov

In between the analyzer releases, Microsoft pushed out several updates for the Visual C++ compiler, which comprised initial support of the C++20 standard, for example, concepts. Unfortunately, when running the analyzer some users stumbled upon the error V003 - Unrecognized error found. We're glad to inform that this error is fixed in PVS-Studio 7.07. Concepts are supported.
 

CLion 2020.1: Dozens of Improvements Across the IDE, and Benefits for CUDA and Embedded Projects

by Anastasia Kazakova

Here is a quick overview of the main highlights. If you are interested in the specific details, please read on:

• CUDA projects: code assistance in CUDA C/C++ code, an updated New Project wizard, support for CUDA file extensions
• Embedded development: support for the IAR compiler and a plugin for PlatformIO
• Windows projects: support for Clang-cl and an LLDB-based debugger for the Visual Studio C++ toolchain
• Clang-based tools update
• Refactorings, formatter, documentation, and editor enhancements
• Run/Debug configurations
• IntelliJ Platform updates

corobatch: using coroutines to batch operations with no effort

by Francesco Zoffoli

Often performing operations in batch is more efficient than doing them one at a time. Typical examples could be most kinds of I/O, or vectorized instructions.

Unfortunately, doing operations on groups of items at the same time can be much less readable than doing them one element at a time...

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

by Elnar Dakeshov

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...

Conan users can now set GitLab as the remote registry for their packages

This allows users to share private packages within an organization that is already using GitLab, publish public packages for general or open source use, and will open up many possibilities in utilizing GitLab’s CI pipelines to build and consume these packages automatically.