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(This is the first of two articles on changes to the C Runtime (CRT) in the Visual Studio "14" CTP. This article discusses the major architectural changes to the libraries; the second article will enumerate the new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes.)For the past seven releases of Visual Studio (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013),...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 includes a number of fixes filed through Connect: Thanks to everyone who provided feedback!

I'm Microsoft's STL maintainer, and once again we've got about a year's worth of work to tell you about.  ("We" means P.J. Plauger of Dinkumware for most features, myself for most fixes and Library Issue resolutions, plus fixes contributed by our libraries dev lead Artur Laksberg and our CRT maintainer James McNellis.)  If you missed the ...

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 next maj...

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 next maj...

Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog. Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an updated conformance roadmap.Pause. Cool, huh?Here are the improvements for Visual C++: To view the entire release not...

Today, the Visual Studio "14" CTP was released. Soma writes all about it on his blog. Go ahead and click over to read the article, especially the section on Visual C++ conformance updates with an updated conformance roadmap.Pause. Cool, huh?Here are the improvements for Visual C++: To view the entire release not...

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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 graph...