Now that Visual Studio 2015 is upon us, here's a brief overview of the capabilities of the .NET Compiler Platform. "Project Roslyn," formally known as the Microsoft .NET Compiler Platform, has been in ...

On July 20, Microsoft declared Visual Studio 2015 officially done and available for download. The latest version of Microsoft's tool suite, as well as .Net 4.6, have been released to manufacturing and ...

In version 17.14 of Visual Studio 2022, the MSVC compiler generates code twenty percent faster than in version 17, according to Microsoft. Furthermore, the compiler simplifies the data flow so that ...

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i'm getting ready to dive back into C++ learning and am wondering if the visual studio.net suite will limit my options? i remember reading that visual basic wasn't "portable" to operating systems ...

Microsoft's new, 64-bit Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler has reached the next milestone in its development, with the release of the second Community Technology Preview (CTP). CTP 2 of RyuJIT was announced ...

A feature in a compiler included in Microsoft Corp.’s newly announced Visual C++ .Net application can unwittingly allow developers to create programs vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, according ...