What's New in Visual C++ 2015 and Future Directions
summary
Visual Studio 2015 shows concrete wins: incremental linker and SL fastlink plus incremental LTCG cut iterative rebuilds (one team drops 958s to ~7% of previous) and backend vectorization yields up to 300% speedups on numeric loops. New refactorings (extract, move decl/def, rename), single-file Intellisense, and diagnostics like heap allocation snapshots and perf tips let developers find leaks and hot paths quickly. Cross‑platform work includes a fast Android emulator and a Clang-front-end→MS back-end (Clang-C2) to ease porting; conformance and C++14/await/modules progress continues.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and team updates
- 3:06Visual Studio 2015 goals
- 6:03IDE improvements and setup
- 8:54Touchscreen and window layouts
- 11:43Feedback and diagnostics tools
- 13:07New refactorings in C++
- 18:09Single file IntelliSense
- 20:38Build performance enhancements
- 23:53Memory diagnostics and debugging
- 31:43Cross-platform development
- 39:11C++ conformance progress
- 43:01Clang/C2 toolchain
- 46:11Future directions and updates
- 51:14Q&A session
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