Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 released

Several improvements for the compiler and the libraries were done. All the details can be found here.

DynaMix released

The library is a means to create a project's architecture rather than achieve its purpose. It focuses on maximal performance and minimal memory overhead.

DynaMix is great for the software architecture of systems with very complex objects including, but not limited to:

• Games (especially role-playing ones or strategies)
• CAD systems
• Enterprise systems
• UI libraries
   

Qt 5.7 released

by Lars Knoll

I’m very happy to announce that Qt 5.7 is now available. It’s been only 3 months since we released Qt 5.6, so one might expect a rather small release with Qt 5.7. But apart from the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, we have managed to add a whole bunch of new things to this release.

Conan C/C++ Package Manager

Conan is a portable package manager, intended for C and C++ developers, but it is able to manage builds from source, dependencies, and precompiled binaries for any language.

Building And Packaging C++ Modules In Vs2015

by Conan's blog

This post makes a brief introduction to the C++ modules (we wished C++17, but we will have to wait). Modules have already been experimentally available in an early implementation in CLang, and now Microsoft is also providing them in Visual Studio 2015. We will see their syntax and how to build them, as introduced in the Visual Studio Blog, and at the same time, we will show how to create and consumes packages with C++ modules with conan C/C++ package manager.

magnum: C++11/C++14 and OpenGL graphics engine

by Vladimír Vondruš

Magnum is 2D/3D graphics engine written in C++11/C++14 and modern OpenGL. Its goal is to simplify low-level graphics development and interaction with OpenGL using recent C++11/C++14 features and to abstract away platform-specific issues.

Expression SFINAE improvements in VS 2015 Update 3

by Andrew Pardoe

Last December we blogged about partial Expression SFINAE support in VS 2015 Update 1. Some of the things we heard from you after that post are that you wanted better Expression SFINAE support, especially for popular libraries such as Boost and Range-v3. These libraries have been our focus over the last few months...

FunctionalPlus

by Tobias Hermann

helps you write concise and readable C++ code.

Great code should mostly be self-documenting, but while using C++ in reality you can find yourself dealing with low-level stuff like iterators or hand-written loops that distract from the actual essence of your code.

FunctionalPlus is a small header-only library supporting you in reducing code noise and in dealing with only one single level of abstraction at a time. By increasing brevity and maintainability of your code it can improve productivity (and fun!) in the long run. It pursues these goals by providing pure and easy-to-use functions that free you from implementing commonly used flows of control over and over again.

Standards version switches in the compiler

by Gabriel Dos Reis, Ulzii Luvsanbat, and Andrew Pardoe

We’re creating a series of new switches that correspond to versions of the C++ language, starting with /std:c++14 and /std:c++latest...

C++ Core Guidelines Checkers are now in a single NuGet package

We’re now shipping both the experimental checkers, including the lifetime checkers, and the regular checkers in one NuGet package (the GSL is still installed as a dependency.) New MSBuild scripts allow us to extend project settings so that you can select specific extensions during code analysis...