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By Marco Arena | Mar 4, 2016 01:28 AM | Tags: visual studio
The Visual Studio Team released the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2.
Useful links:
Download VS 2015 Update 2 RC
What's new for Visual C++ Developers
Breaking Changes in Visual C++ 2015 Update 2
Here is the original article.
By Marco Arena | Mar 1, 2016 06:09 AM | Tags: visual studio
[Updated to reflect the original post's title change. -- Ed]
*as of this video's release date, for the standard library
An in-depth look at what new C++17 standard library features are available in yet another round of STL updates:
GoingNative 47: MSVC++ is* C++17 standard library feature complete!
by Gabriel Ha
From the video:
as_const(), std::<chrono> helper functions, expression SFINAE in std::result_of and std::function, Improving overload detection for std::pair and std::tuple...
How to try these updates:
By Marco Arena | Feb 16, 2016 09:29 AM | Tags: visual studio
Today the Visual C++ team is announcing a new experiment: releasing the VC++ toolset as a NuGet package that can be added to any C++ project or solution targeting desktop:
Try out the latest C++ compiler toolset without waiting for the next update of Visual Studio
by Andrew Pardoe
From the article:
Why might you want to try out new tools? There’s a lot of change happening in Visual C++ today: support for new features going into the C++17 language such as Coroutines...
By Marco Arena | Feb 12, 2016 06:58 AM | Tags: visual studio
The C++ compiler team is excited for you to try out the compiler in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP 1. Let’s dive into some of the feature improvements they have made in the compiler for Update 2:
Compiler improvements in VS 2015 Update 2
by Andrew Pardoe
From the article:
Since Update 1 we’ve made progress on being Standards-conformant for lot of C++11 and C++14 features...
By Marco Arena | Jan 23, 2016 06:09 AM | Tags: visual studio
Good news from the Visual C++ team: in Visual Studio Update 2, they have implemented every C++ Standard Library feature that's been voted into C++11, C++14, and the C++17-so-far Working Paper N4567:
VS 2015 Update 2's STL is C++17-so-far Feature Complete
by Stephan T. Lavavej
From the article:
Update 2's STL fully supports N3462 "SFINAE-Friendly result_of" and LWG 2132 "std::function ambiguity"...
By Aurelia-Doina Popa | Dec 10, 2014 08:32 AM | Tags: visual studio intermediate
An article about a security feature in Visual Studio 2015, called Control Flow Guard.
Visual Studio 2015 Preview: Work-in-Progress Security Feature
by Jim Hogg
From the article:
By simply adding a new option to your Project, the Visual C++ compiler will inject extra security checks into your binaries. These will detect attempts to hijack your code. The check will stop execution of your code, before the hijacker can do damage to your data or PC...