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Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio Community 2013.
This Community edition replaces the Express editions.
You no longer have to decide which Express edition to use because the Community edition supports all kinds of development, web, mobile, desktop, …
Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013.
Unlike the Express editions, the Community edition supports extensions.

Of course there are some restrictions on who can use this edition, but not many:

Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:

• Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:

• An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
• For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

Download and get more information from here.

On Monday March 17th, 2014 I gave a “What’s new in Visual C++ 2013” presentation for the Belgian C++ Users Group (BeC++).
This time there were around 55 attendees for the BeC++ meeting, quite a success 🙂
The slides of my presentation can be downloaded below:

Peter Van Weert gave a presentation “What’s new in C++14”.
His slides can be downloaded from the official BeC++ blog.

There are also a couple of pictures from the event on the BeC++ blog.

And I already started planning the next Belgian C++ Users Group meeting. It will be on May 8th, 2014. Details will follow soon.

Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 has been released.

The following are Visual C++ related bug fixes:

• Assume that you edit a dialog that contains at least one picture control in Resource Editor. After you save the file, the project can no longer be compiled.
• When you edit multiple resources in Resource Editor, Visual Studio crashes randomly.
• Addresses some Visual C++ automatic formatting issues.
• Visual C++ IDE does not work as expected if there is an unexpected registry subkey under the following registry key:
  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualSTudio\12.0\FileExtensionMapping
• When you try to link with PGO on amd64_x86 complier, Visual Studio crashes.

Update 1 is a rather small update. A list of all the fixes can be found here.

Download the update from here.

S. Somasegar said that they are well underway on Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, their first major feature update for VS2013, which they are looking forward to delivering this spring.

Visual Studio 2013 has only been released very recently, and the Visual C++ team already has a new CTP out with new features 🙂
The following table gives an overview and even includes features that are planned for future releases.

• Implicit move special member function generation (thus also completing =default)
• Reference qualifiers on member functions (a.k.a. “& and && for *this”)
• Thread-safe function local static initialization (a.k.a. “magic statics”)
• Inheriting constructors
• alignof/alignas
• __func__
• Extended sizeof
• constexpr (except for constructors)
• noexcept (unconditional)
• C++14 decltype(auto)
• C++14 auto function return type deduction
• C++14 generic lambdas (with explicit lambda capture list)
• (Proposed for C++17) Resumable functions and await

Remember, this is a CTP so it does not come with a Go Live license.
More details can be found on the VCBlog.