Tag Archives: C++

Microsoft C++ Core Guidelines Checker released

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

C++ Core Checker for Visual Studio is now available as a NuGet package. The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++. Microsoft’s Guidelines Support Library (GSL) contains supporting functions and … Continue reading →

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ReSharper C++

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Sergey Vlasov

JetBrains last month released ReSharper C++ – a Visual Studio extension offering refactoring, navigation, code inspection, quick-fixes and code generation for C++ developers. It doesn’t support C++/CLI and thus of no help for my projects, but for pure native C++ … Continue reading →

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Separating C++ project properties between VS 2010 and VS 2013

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Sergey Vlasov

Since Visual Studio 2010, common C++ project properties (e.g. external VC++ Directories like Include Directories and Library Directories) are defined in property sheet files and managed with the Visual Studio Property Manager. See Sharing project properties in Visual C++ by … Continue reading →

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Show all mnemonics in Visual Studio .rc dialog designer for native C++ code

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

“Normally, keyboard users move the input focus from one control to another in a dialog box with the TAB and ARROW keys. However, you can define an access key (a mnemonic or easy-to-remember name) that allows users to choose a … Continue reading →

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C++ Rename refactoring for Visual Studio 2013

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual C++ Refactoring extension by Microsoft Visual C++ team lets you rename symbols in C++ code, automatically changing the declaration and all references: You select a symbol in code, invoke Refactor – Rename, enter a new name, preview and select … Continue reading →

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Format C++ code intelligently in Visual Studio with clang-format

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Sergey Vlasov

Two month ago in GoingNative 2013 Chandler Carruth demonstrated a new tool clang-format to automatically format C++ code. The whole talk is excellent, but if you just interested in formatting watch between 24 and 32 minutes. For Visual Studio users … Continue reading →

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Visual Lint static C++ code analysis adapter for Visual Studio

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Lint by Riverblade integrates most popular static C++ code analysis tools with Visual Studio. It supports Gimpel PC-lint, CppCheck, Google cpplint.py and Inspirel Vera++. Visual Lint lets you run these tools from Visual Studio with a single click for … Continue reading →

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PVS-Studio C++ static code analyzer tool for Visual Studio review

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

PVS-Studio by “Program Verification Systems” finds errors in your C++ code statically analyzing files in a Visual Studio solution. Static analysis tools are a long term investment of time and money in code quality. They can find certain kinds of … Continue reading →

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Shark Compiler Control for Visual Studio review

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Shark Compiler Control by Sören Kewenig speeds up C++ compilation in Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005 using multiple processor cores. It works similar to the /MP switch, but with less restrictions and more convenient control. Visual Studio has built-in … Continue reading →

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Visual Assist X review

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Sergey Vlasov

Visual Assist X is a code refactoring and code navigation add-in for Visual Studio. For C++ developers like myself this is the best productivity booster. I started to use Visual Assist with Visual C++ 6 and up to Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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