VS 2017 RTM will be released soon. VS 2017 RC is available now and contains all of the changes described here - please try it out and send feedback through the IDE's Help > Send Feedback > Report A Problem (or Provide A Suggestion). This is the third and final post for what's changed in the STL between VS 2015 Update 3 and VS 2017 RTM. In t...
Previously on this blog we have talked about Resumable Functions, and even recently we touched on the renaming of the yield keyword to co_yield in our implementation in Visual Studio 2017. I am very excited about this potential C++ standards feature, so in this blog post I wanted to share with you a real world use of it by adapting it to the libuv ...
Coroutines—formerly known as “C++ resumable functions”—are one of the Technical Specifications (TS) that we have implemented in the Visual C++ compiler. We’ve supported coroutines for three years—ever since the VC++ November 2013 CTP release. If you’re using coroutines you should be aware that the keyword `yield` is being removed in the release of...
vcpkg, a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows, was published 3 months ago. We started with 20 libraries and now the C++ community has added 121 new C++ libraries. We really appreciate your feedback and we created a survey to collect it. Please take 5 minutes to complete it. The survey measure your overall satisfaction wit...
