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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Edit and Continue C++ style


As demonstrated in Chapter 5, Debugging Your .NET Application, C# and Visual Basic support the Edit and Continue (EnC) functionality under Visual Studio. While users of those languages have had a pleasant experience, the situation has been a little bit different for C++ users. VS2013 had EnC for C++, although it had some restrictions that limited its usefulness. Fortunately, the EnC support for C++ code is much improved in VS2015. Microsoft has updated the component that provides debugging services, which combined with some other modernization ensures that EnC is supported for both 32-bit and 64-bit C++ code. The end result is that now C++ programmers can use this ability to save time while debugging their programs.

Tip

For best results, be sure that your copy of VS2015 has applied Update 2 or newer.

Getting ready

Simply start VS2015 Community or one of the premium editions, and you're ready to go.

How to do it...

To observe Edit and Continue in action, take the following...