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Cocos2d-x Visual Studio Android Project

July 12, 2016 Jul 12, 2016 07/12/16
IanHuff - MSFT
In the world of game development , Cocos2d is one of the biggest names out there. The open source Cocos2d framework has been the backbone of a vast number of top selling apps and games, provides support for a number of programming languages, and targets a massive variety of devices. Currently, Cocos2d-x (the C++ version of Cocos2d) provides...

Developing Native-Activity (Android) applications

December 5, 2014 Dec 5, 2014 12/5/14
Ankit Asthana
Overview Visual Studio 2015 preview (download here) introduces the ability for developers to create Android Native Activity application as a part of the cross-platform mobile development. Android platform with Android Native Activity (API Level 9) introduced the capability to create pure C/C++ applications. While there is some hidden Java JNI...

Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 4, 2014 Jun 4, 2014 06/4/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the ...

Native Memory Diagnostic Tools for Visual Studio “14” CTP

June 4, 2014 Jun 4, 2014 06/4/14
Adam Welch (MSFT)
In Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, memory diagnostic tools were added for Windows Store and Windows Phone that enable developers to monitor live memory consumption and take heap snapshots of their applications for further analysis.  The Visual Studio team is extending the existing tools to work for Windows Desktop applications in the ...

Solution Dependency Viewer extension

May 29, 2014 May 29, 2014 05/29/14
Visual CPP Team
Hello, In my previous blog, I introduced PDBProject Extension VS2103 as an alternative way to leverage the IDE features.  In this post, I would like to introduce Solution Dependency Viewer Extension as an easy to understand overview of your solution.  This extension parses each C++, C#, and VB projects in the solution and presents a ...

Visual C++ Libraries Survey

September 30, 2013 Sep 30, 2013 09/30/13
Jennifer Leaf [MSFT]
The Visual C++ team wants to better understand how you use libraries in your day-to-day development work. Whether you’re publishing libraries, finding libraries that work on the Microsoft platforms for which you’re building your apps, or integrating libraries into your project and build systems, we want to hear from you so we can ...

How is your experience developing graphics apps?

August 26, 2013 Aug 26, 2013 08/26/13
Rong Lu
Hello, my name is Rong Lu. I’m a PM on Visual C++ team working on graphics development features in VS, including asset designers, templates, graphics diagnostics, etc.. In preparation for planning for graphics tooling capabilities in the next version of Visual Studio, we’re trying to understand the needs of graphics developers...

Just My Code for C++ in VS 2013

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13
Visual CPP Team
If you have experience debugging C# or Visual Basic code in Visual Studio, you are probably familiar with a debugging feature called Just My Code (JMC).  In Visual Studio 2013, we introduce Just My Code for C++.  In VS2013, the goal of this C++ JMC feature is to help the user focus on their code when viewing call stacks without ...

Visual C++ Developer Survey

March 22, 2013 Mar 22, 2013 03/22/13
Sumit Kumar (MSFT)
Hi, my name is Sumit Kumar and I am a Program Manager on the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. We are conducting a survey to understand what can we do to make Visual Studio more useful for C++ development in organizations like yours. If you have 15 minutes (maybe less), I would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts in our survey at https...

Roaming Settings: Give Us Your Feedback!

January 2, 2013 Jan 2, 2013 01/2/13
Eric Battalio
Let's kick off 2013 with a survey JWe have been researching roaming Visual Studio settings and have a few questions that will help gain insights into what the best experience would be. We have created a survey (https://aka.ms/vsroaming) aimed at understanding Visual Studio settings usage patterns and gathering feedback. The survey should take ...