This version of C++ contains special functions and objects to handle the Windows environment. These files, stored as CPP files, compile through the Visual C++ compiler.

The Visual C++ compiler is the best-supported, most widely used compiler on Windows and, critically, is the compiler with the best support for Windows' wide range of debugging and diagnostic tools.

Microsoft is developing an advanced code optimizer for its Visual C++ compiler back end to improve performance and code size. Visual C++ is Microsoft’s variant of the still-popular general ...

McGraw said StackGuard is the only part of the compiler that appears to be a problem. The rest of the Visual C++ .Net and Visual C++ Version 7 compiler is fine from a security standpoint, he said.

Related to Bartolomeo's post, a few days earlier Visual C++ team member Cody Miller blogged about support for C++ 11-variety constant expressions that are part of the Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 ...

The Palo Alto giant's browser will be ditching Microsoft's native C++ compiler in favour of Clang in order to maintain parity with other platforms like macOS and Linux, where Clang is already used.

Microsoft's plan is to make the technology part of the next Visual C++ compiler and to fully integrate it into the next version of Visual Studio, codenamed Visual Studio vNext (and expected ...

The company’s C++ AMP (C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism) technology is expected to become part of the next Visual C++ compiler and integrated with Visual Studio, said S. Somasegar, senior ...

Maury Markowitz Ars Praefectus 23y 4,640 Mar 5, 2018 #18 > The Visual C++ compiler is the best-supported For and by Windows, yes, but for any sort of standards compliance, no.