ReSharper C++

Please welcome ReSharper C++ 2018.2! While ReSharper C++ 2018.1 introduced two major new features, debug step filters and includes analyzer, ReSharper C++ 2018.2 is focused on improving its understanding of the C++ language. The biggest highlight is its long-awaited support for C++/CLI. In addition, many important features from C++17 and even the upcoming C++20 have been implemented. Code analysis is enhanced with spell-checking inspections powered by the newly bundled ReSpeller plugin, as well as formatting inspections to help you maintain a consistent code style. Initial C++/CLI suppor

We are pleased to introduce ReSharper C++ 2018.1, our first major update this year! This release comes with two new important features. First, Debug Step Filters lets you avoid stepping into specific functions during debugging. Second, Includes Analyzer helps investigate the dependencies between header files that affect build times. Read on for more details about these features and other highlights of the 2018.1 release: Debug step filters Includes analyzer Navigation improvements Command-line code cleanup Code inspections More ways to configure inspection severity Clang-Tidy

It hasn't been long since the first debugging-assistance features — inline values, searchable DataTips, and breakpoints navigation — appeared in ReSharper, but today we're happy to present yet another cool feature — step filters in C++. Why do you need step filters? Well, the illustration below explains pretty much everything: Some functions never need to be stepped into because they are either very simple or very well tested. But the problem is that the debugger cannot tell which functions are worth debugging and which aren’t, and therefore Step Into will not miss

ReSharper C++ 2017.3 has been one of our biggest updates yet in terms of both new features and fixed issues. Without further ado, let's dig into the notable changes it brings: Clang-Tidy integration Debugger features Language understanding Code inspections and context actions Code formatting Navigation improvements Other changes Clang-Tidy integration Clang-Tidy is a powerful open-source code analysis tool based on the popular Clang compiler. It comes with an extensive set of code checks and accompanying fixes for typical programming errors. ReSharper C++ 2017.3 provides seam

Please welcome ReSharper C++ 2017.2! This is the second annual ReSharper C++ release, packed as usual with new features and bug-fixes. Take a look at the What's New page for a quick overview, or continue reading for a deep dive into the highlights of this release: Language understanding Code inspections and quick-fixes ClangFormat support and line wrapping Navigation features Performance improvements Language understanding ReSharper C++ 2017.2 has finalized support for several C++11 features: In addition to user-defined integer literals, ReSharper C++ supports floating-point,

ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1 is out! It's been some time since our last post about updates in ReSharper's C++ support, so let's take a look at what has kept the team busy. Major areas of improvements include: Visual Studio 2017 support Language features Introduce/Inline typedef Unit testing Completion Code cleanup and inspections Documentation support Command line tools Performance Code formatting Navigation and find usages Visual Studio 2017 support Visual Studio 2017 has launched, bringing a lot of new features and improvements to C++ developers. ReSharper C++ 2017.1

As a part of ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2, our C++ team is happy to present the ReSharper C++ 2016.2 update. All in all, the new release comes with 200+ fixes and resolves several important performance- and stability-affecting issues. Let's take a tour of the new features in this release. Inline Variable The mainline ReSharper's refactorings continue to make their way into ReSharper C++. With the latest update, Inline Variable is now available for C++. This refactoring allows you to replace all occurrences of a variable in the code with its initializer. (The reverse functionality is already provi

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 of course it will use its unit

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

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