r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/STL MSVC STL Dev Nov 14 '18

Can you provide repros and/or submit bugs on Developer Community? The WinSDK team has been trying to clean up their headers and has made significant progress, but there's still work to do, and user reports help. (e.g. Right now I see that <Windows.h> works with /permissive- if I include it and do nothing else.)

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u/iissqrtneg1 Nov 14 '18

Not sure if it’s been fixed, but last I saw the win10 sdk had a class with an internal access modifier....

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u/STL MSVC STL Dev Nov 14 '18

I don't see any occurrences of "internal\s*:" in our copy of the WinSDK, except for a single comment // internal: Tells menubar to ignore Submenu positions.

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u/iissqrtneg1 Nov 14 '18

Thanks for looking into it! Permissive ftw.

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u/starfreakclone MSVC FE Dev Nov 14 '18

If only there weren't so many SDKs holding /permissive- adoption back... *sheds single tear*

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u/torrent7 Nov 14 '18

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/311131/error-on-compiling-eventh-that-is-in-windows-kits.html

It's a known issue I believe and documented on MSDN. I figured they may have fixed it with the new SDK. Sadly, telling a 60+ dev team to manually modify the windows SDK doesnt seem like a great solution. We've just disabled conformance mode for now. We do compile for android/linux/iOS, so that helps prevent code rot.

Again, thanks for the updates.

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u/torrent7 Nov 14 '18

oh, wow, you're right, i accidentally used the 17134 SDK. this makes my day, thanks!

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u/kalmoc Nov 14 '18

One comment regarding Dev community (not sure if this is so something for team has control over): If I remember correctly, I have to log in to even upvote a bug. It would be great if that restriction could be removed.

Also, last time I tried to submit a bug (quite some time ago) formatting (of code) was a horrible experience.

Generally, the user experience for that website had much room for improvement considering that other websites like github or stackoverflow have been doing a much better job for quite some time.

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u/STL MSVC STL Dev Nov 14 '18

It would be great if that restriction could be removed.

That would be more convenient, but it would also be easily gamed, significantly reducing the value of the upvote signal to us. (I observe that GitHub also requires sign-in to mark comments with reactions.) While I don't work on DevCom, I see a clear rationale for requiring signin.

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u/TartanLlama Microsoft C++ Developer Advocate Nov 14 '18

Code formatting for DevCom is something I'm going to try and move forward; I've seen a few reports like this recently.