Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC

by Andrew Pardoe

“Two-phase name lookup” is an informal term that refers to a set of rules governing the resolution of names used in a template declaration...

LLVM 5.0 Released

by the LLVM Team

The Clang releated changes are documented on an extra page.

C++ coroutines are the major new feature. Beside that, C++17 feature implementation has been completed.

Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017

by Adam Welch

In this blogpost we want to highlight several Visual Studio extensions that can make your life better as a C++ developer if you’re using Visual Studio 2017 or considering upgrading...

Useful Improvements in the PVS-Studio 6.17 Release

by Andrey Karpov

A much more interesting feature is that a mechanism of virtual values was significantly redesigned in the kernel of C++ analyzer. For example, now the analyzer performs a double loop passage, which allows it to define the range of possible values of variables, changing in a loop, more accurately. So don't be surprised if the analyzer starts issuing many warnings for that code which used to seem correct for the analyzer.

Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake

by Marc Goodner

In Visual Studio 2017 15.4 you can now target Linux from your CMake projects. This enables you to work on your existing code base that uses CMake as your build solution without having to convert it to a VS project. If your code base is cross-platform you can target both Windows and Linux from within Visual Studio.

This post will give an overview of the CMake support for Linux in Visual Studio. You can go here to learn more about CMake in Visual Studio generally.

Boost 1.65 is available

Version 1.65.0
August 21st, 2017 20:50 GMT

C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3

by Stephan T. Lavavej

Visual Studio 2017’s first toolset update, version 15.3, is currently in preview and will be released in its final form very soon. (The toolset consists of the compiler, linker, and libraries. After VS 2017 RTM, the 15.1 and 15.2 updates improved the IDE. The 15.3 update improves both the IDE and the toolset. In general, you should expect the IDE to be updated at a higher frequency than the toolset.)

build2 0.6.0 adds Modules TS support for VC++, Clang, GCC

These notes provide a more detailed discussion of major new features in the build2 release 0.6.0, including motivation for implementing them and their usage examples. For the complete list of changes, see the Release Announcement or the NEWS files in the individual packages.

Diagnostic Improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.3.0

by Yuriy Solodkyy

Most of these improvements are in response to the diagnostics improvements survey we shared with you at the beginning of the 15.3 development cycle...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2017 Update

by Rong Lu

2 million downloads! This is very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension, considering it was just 4 months ago when we hit the 1 million milestone!