C++ Team Blog

Finding build bottlenecks with C++ Build Insights

April 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 04/22/20

Kevin Cadieux

C++ Build Insights offers more than one way to investigate your C++ build times. In this article, we discuss two methods that you can use to identify bottlenecks in your builds: manually by using the vcperf analysis tool, or programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK. We present a case study that shows how to use these tools to speed up ...

Sign Up For Pure Virtual C++ Conference 2020

April 16, 2020 Apr 16, 2020 04/16/20

Sy Brand

Pure Virtual C++ 2020 is a free single-track one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. It is taking place on Thursday 30th April 2020 from 14:30 to 23:00 UTC. Sign up on the event website. All talks will be pre-recorded and streamed on YouTube Live with a live Q&A session with the speakers. After the event, the talks will ...

GSL 3.0.0 Release

April 16, 2020 Apr 16, 2020 04/16/20

Jordan Maples

Update June 4th, 2020 - GSL version 3.1.0 has been released. Please see the latest release page for information regarding GSL 3.1.0. For all future updates, please see refer to the release page on GitHub.   GSL 3.0.0 Release Version 3.0.0 of Microsoft's implementation of the C++ Core Guidelines Support Library (GSL) is now available...

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.5

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Mei Xu

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and better security. Here is a brief list of improvements for you to review. For additional optimizations implemented in MSVC in previous ...

New templates for debugging CMake projects on remote systems and WSL in Visual Studio 2019

April 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020 04/3/20

Erika Sweet

We heard your feedback that it can be difficult to configure debugging sessions on remote Linux systems or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 we introduced a new debugging template to simplify debugging with gdb. The new cppgdb template We heard your feedback that the old ...