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 users of our unit test infrastructure are used to. ReSharper will detect individual Boost tests as well as test suites: There is also support for test labels: And

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 caused more C#-related holy wars than the ubiquitous var. Well, ubiquitous for some, since many people still prefer to hold a belief that var is a form of obfuscation. The choice of using or not using var

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 interesting. QuantLib is originally configured as a Visual Studio solution, so we are going to take a look at how to Build the Boost libraries, which QuantLib is dependent upon Create a C

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 executable code, you can exploit a Microsoft-specific peculiarity to generate comments as well. This is possible thanks to simple concatenation. Define a CONCAT macro as follows: #define CONCAT(A, B) A##B N

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 toggled either using the shortcut keys or the mouse (left button adds the element, right button removes it): The behavior of completion filters is configurable in ReSharper’s options. You can choos

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 options. Option 1 (probably the easiest): Just install Google Test from Nuget: This sets everything up, but your mileage may vary: the package comes with pre-build binaries that may not targ

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, but rather provide a workbook/worksheet/document mechanic whereas the commands to be executed and their results are mixed together. This effectively provides for literate programming and makes it eas

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 initialization, which simplifies the, ahem, initialization of various objects (e.g., obviating some constructor calls in function return values) and also helps us avoid C++’s most vexing parse. Also i

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 at some of the core debugging features that are supported. Upd. (changes since CLion 2016.1 and 2016.2) Learn how to attach for debug to local process started not from the CLion (from CLion v2016.

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. Without wasting any more time, let’s talk about some of the features coming your way in this initial release. Live Templates and Code Generation ReSharper’s powerful Live Template ecosystem has been a

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 sometimes you want not just to know where the error is, but also to be able to fix it, and you want to see the error as you write code, not as a post-build step. ReSharper is here to help: we have alrea

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 come with CLion. Go To Actions CLion comes with several quick navigation actions available with their respective shortcuts (given here for Windows and Linux, as well as for OS X for the cases it differ