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By Marco Arena | Jul 14, 2016 12:05 AM | Tags: visual studio
An interesting news for Visual C++ developers:
Bing Developer Assistant, now with C++ support
by Marian Luparu
From the article:
The Visual Studio extension Developer Assistant now offers contextually aware web powered solutions for C++...
Other quick links: How it works and Download it
By Jordi Mon Companys | Jul 6, 2016 07:25 AM | Tags: None
Good news from the Cevelop team
Finally Cevelop's C++ IDE is out
Cevelop team
From the article:
A special thanks to all the testers and bug reporters! There might still be problems and false positives in our code-analysis plug-ins (don’t forget that you can now suppress unwanted messages).
By Felix Petriconi | Jun 27, 2016 11:57 PM | Tags: None
Yesterday Microsoft released their update 3 of Visual Studio 2015.
Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 released
From the release note:
Several improvements for the compiler and the libraries were done. All the details can be found here.
By ibob | Jun 27, 2016 11:49 PM | Tags: None
DynaMix (Dynamic Mixins) is a new take on polymorphism. It lets the user compose and modify types at run time in C++
DynaMix released
From the release:
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
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 16, 2016 01:11 PM | Tags: community
The new Qt has arrived!
Qt 5.7 released
by Lars Knoll
From the article:
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 14, 2016 12:56 PM | Tags: efficiency community
Do you know Conan?
What it does:
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 14, 2016 12:44 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental
Modules in Conan explained:
Building And Packaging C++ Modules In Vs2015
by Conan's blog
From the article:
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 10, 2016 01:38 PM | Tags: community c++11
An interesting 3D engine in C++:
magnum: C++11/C++14 and OpenGL graphics engine
by Vladimír Vondruš
Description:
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.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 8, 2016 12:04 PM | Tags: community c++14
More news about the contunious improvements of VS 2015:
Expression SFINAE improvements in VS 2015 Update 3
by Andrew Pardoe
From the article:
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...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 8, 2016 12:00 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency c++11
Here is a simple but powerful library that can helps us write code better:
FunctionalPlus
by Tobias Hermann
Summary:
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.
