Rob and Jason are joined by Ankit Asthana to discuss new features for Visual Studio and VS Code including new support for Linux developers.

Ankit Asthana is a program manager working in the Visual C++ Cross-Platform space. He is knowledgeable in cross-platform technologies, compilers (dynamic and static compilation, optimizer, code generation), distributed computing and server side development. He has in the past worked for IBM and Oracle Canada as a developer building Java 7 (hotspot) and telecommunication products. Ankit back in 2008 also published a book on C++ titled C++ for Beginners to Masters which sold over a few thousand copies.

News

• CppCast Stickers!
• STL Fixes in VS 2015 Update 2
• Runtime Compiled C++
• Windows API sets: source of most Dependency Walker glitches

Ankit Asthana

• Ankit on LinkedIn
• C++ for Beginners to Masters

Links

• /build 2016: What's New with C++ Cross-Platform for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
• /build 2016: C++ Discussion
• /build 2016: Cross-Platform at Microsoft: Xamarin, Cordova, Unity and C++ Panel
• /build 2016: Top 6 Reasons to Move Your C++ Code to Visual Studio 2015
• Visual C++ Blog