Smart pointers are now part of C++11 (the latest ISO C++ standard ratified and published last year.) Let's see smart pointers in action: I'll define a class my_class, as in Listing 1 . This class ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.

Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, ... and the free and open source Visual Studio Code, ... compile-time rules that enable the compiler to detect and warn about unsafe use of pointers and ...

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...

Microsoft activated stricter license enforcement for its popular C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code earlier this month, a move that now prevents the add-on from working in unofficial VS Code ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 of the integrated development environment (IDE) with a new IntelliSense linter to help C++ developers efficiently clean up code.

There are two main areas of Visual C++ development: unmanaged and managed code. Unmanaged code is the traditional approach used in C++ programming, where the programmer manages the memory and ...

While C++ smart pointers seem to imitate the typical garbage collection mechanisms available in managed code, they release memory deterministically. In this column's example, as soon as foo() ends and ...