Hello.Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Release Candidate (known issues) is available now. It includes a number of goodies for C++ developers, but before we take a look, the Visual C++ team wants to thank everyone who has provided feedback over the last year. Your comments and suggestions (and frowns) have helped us plan and prioritize the features ...
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As announced in an earlier blog post, Visual Studio 2015 hosts a new set of memory profiling tools to help address and fix memory issues within your applications. The new debug-time profiler runs during your debugging session and allows you to take snapshots anytime, such as at a breakpoint, and also view the heap contents ...
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My name is Jim Hogg, a Program Manager in the Compilers team.
We would like your feedback on a feature of the Visual C++ compiler that affects the code we generate for floating-point operations. Your answers will help determine what we do. You can vote via survey -- it should not take you more than a few minutes to ...
We have made some changes with respect to /DEBUG:FASTLINK starting with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP. /DEBUG:FASTLINK is aimed at improving link times for the incremental developer loop inside Visual Studio and for medium to large size projects provides ~2x gains. The linker is currently involved in the PDB generation process ...