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September 2019 - C++ Team Blog

Microsoft C++ Team on CppCast

September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19
Sy Brand
Today we have a short guest post from Rob Irving, host of CppCast to tell us about an episode he recorded with our team. (image)   During CppCon 2019 the hosts of CppCast had a chance to sit down with Marian Luparu, Sy Brand and Stephan T. Lavavej from Microsoft's C++ team to discuss some of the announcements made by the team at...

The Future of C++/CLI and .NET Core 3

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Will Buik
.NET Core 3.0 is now available and we have received a lot of questions about what that means for the future of C++/CLI. First, we would like to let everyone know that we are committed to supporting C++/CLI for .NET Core to enable easy interop between C++ codebases and .NET technologies such as WPF and Windows Forms. This support isn’t going ...

Open Sourcing MSVC’s STL

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
Today at CppCon 2019, we (the MSVC team) announced that we're releasing our implementation of the C++ Standard Library (also known as the STL) as open source. https://github.com/microsoft/STL is our new repository, containing all of our product source code, a new CMake build system, and a README with more information. As it explains, we're ...

Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2019

September 6, 2019 Sep 6, 2019 09/6/19
Sy Brand
(image) The Microsoft C++ team will have a booth and many talks covering a wide range of topics at CppCon 2019. Come say hi to our team outside Aurora D and attend our talks to learn what's new in our tooling, dive into new features in the standard, and hear some exciting announcements! We'll also be running a survey on the C++ ...