Apart from the change in version numbers, ReSharper C++ comes with plenty of new features as well as improvements to existing functionality. Here’s what we’ve got in store for you with this release. Boost.Test Support The previous release of ReSharper C++ provided a unit test runner for Google Test — well, this one augments this with Boost.Test support. This includes all the usual refinements

ReSharper makes a clear delineation between the concept of a formatter (a component that changes the way code looks but does not change the syntax) and the code style settings, a piece of functionality that can, in fact, change syntax without changing the semantics. This blog post covers the updates to the code style settings that appear as part of ReSharper 10. For example, no keyword has caus

This blog post is about QuantLib and how to get it working in CLion. For those of you who are unaware of what QuantLib is, it is an open-source quantitative finance library, covering many aspects of financial mathematics, including instrument pricing, financial calendars, and more. It has some sophisticated math, and also exhibits some interesting design patterns that C++ practitioners might find

It’s no secret that the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler has lots of non-standard behaviors. What’s even more unfortunate is that those behaviors are subsequently used by different libraries. Ultimately, for a tool vendor there’s no option in not supporting all of those peculiarities. Here are a few that we’ve come across: Eliminated Types In addition to using C++ macros to generate actual executab

ReSharper 9.x continues to build on the radical improvements in ReSharper 8 with even more completion features and enhancements to existing ones. Here’s what we’ve got: Completion filters let you take control of your search results if they get too big. The new completion filters let you fine-tune the set of results by showing a set of options below the completion list. These buttons can be

Unit testing C++ applications is not exactly easy. Without any embeddable metadata, the actual process of running a unit test has to be defined explicitly in code. Luckily, frameworks such as Google Test provide comprehensive support for this. Let’s take a look. Download and Build Google Test is not header-only: there are libraries to build. So, as a Visual Studio user, you have essentially two

This is a first in a series of blog posts covering the use of Python for quantitative research. In this post, we take a look at IPython Notebooks: a really handy tool for structuring calculations in a document-like fashion. If you look at the state of various computer algebra systems (CASs) today, you will see that they typically operate not only on the basis of a REPL-style console window input,

Hi, everyone! On July 2nd, we plan to run a webinar covering some of the features of Modern C++. Modern C++ is a really broad topic, so here is an outline of some of the things we are going to cover: Useful new C++ constructs, such as in-class variable initializers, delegating constructors and deleted/defaulted functions as well as raw strings, nullptr and others. Uniform initia

One of the key advantages to having an IDE instead of a plain-text editor is the debugging experience. Debugging involves being able to pause program execution at an arbitrary point and having the ability to inspect the content of variables. CLion supports the debugging experience using the GDB debugger (and LLDB on OS X since version 1.1 and on Linux since version 2016.2). Here’s a look

Throughout its 11-year history, ReSharper has focused primarily on the .NET state of affairs. This commenced with support for C#, then VB.NET, and has slowly encompassed both the desktop (WinForms, WPF) as well as web (ASP.NET, HTML/CSS/JS/TS) languages and technologies. Now, we are happy to announce the release of ReSharper C++ — a new product specifically targeted at modern C++ developers. Wi

ReSharper 9 comes with plenty of JavaScript-related changes. We’ve already mentioned some of them in our TypeScript blog post and, additionally, we have a blog post on converting JavaScript to TypeScript, but now we are going to focus on JavaScript proper. So, what does ReSharper 9 have in store? Tools like JSHint and JSLint are increasingly popular nowadays. Their inspections are great, but so

When working with large projects, it’s often beneficial to be able to quickly locate files and folders, as well as types and their members. It is also very helpful to be able to quickly visualize and navigate inheritance hierarchies as well as include dependencies. This is precisely what IDEs are made for, and CLion is no exception. Here is an overview of some of the navigation facilities that com