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C++ Tutorial: Hello World

June 16, 2017 Jun 16, 2017 06/16/17
Eric Battalio
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial. In this first C++ tutorial, you will learn how to write (and run!) your first C++ program, “Hello, World!”. Along the way you will learn a little C++ history, see how to configure a C++ console application in Visual Studio 2017, walk through code structure, and see how code is built. Acknowledgements This ...

Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey

June 1, 2017 Jun 1, 2017 06/1/17
Eric Battalio
The Spring 2017 Visual C++ Migration Survey is now open. Please take a few minutes to share your experiences, positive or not so positive. If you have not migrated, please let us know why. Share your candid feedback now! Thank you.  ...

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

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Rong Lu
Earlier this month, the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hit another exciting milestone – it has been installed over 1.5 million times since it first shipped in March last year! Thanks to everyone who has sent us feedback to help us make it this far. We will continue to make improvements to the extension based on your feedback. (image...

Using C++ Coroutines with Boost C++ Libraries

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Eric Battalio
This article was written by Gor Nishanov. Last month, Jim Springfield wrote a great article on using C++ Coroutines with Libuv (a multi-platform C library for asynchronous I/O). This month we will look at how to use coroutines with components of Boost C++ libraries, namely boost::future and boost::asio. Getting Boost If you already have ...

Unit Testing and the Future: Announcing the Test Adapter for Google Test

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Augustin Popa
The Visual C++ team is always looking for ways to improve the Visual Studio experience for C++ developers, regardless of their preferred development workflow. This time the focus is on unit testing. While Visual Studio has shipped with a native C++ test framework for a number of releases along with testing tools in the IDE, we recognize that ...

Linux C++ improvements for cross-platform code sharing and type visualization

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Marc Goodner
In Visual Studio 2017 we introduced the Linux development with C++ workload. This tutorial is going to walk through some of the improvements we have made in the 15.2 release using the classic spinning cube demo from Julien Guertault’s OpenGL tutorial. We have shown how to use this OpenGL demo in our Linux workload before. What we are showing...

CMake support in Visual Studio – what’s new in 2017 15.3 Preview

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Will Buik
We are excited to announce the first preview release of Visual Studio 2017 15.3 update in conjunction with our Build 2017 conference!  This preview includes two new features of interest to developers utilizing CMake.  Support for the CMake Ninja generator and CMake CTest integration in the IDE. Please download the preview and try out the ...

C++ at Microsoft Build 2017

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Eric Battalio
The C++ team is at Build this week. Here are some of the highlights for C++ developers (and since there is a live stream and videos, you do not have to miss everything): We hope to see you there...