Visual Studio 2013 Available for Download

October 17, 2013 Marc Gregoire Microsoft

The final versions of Visual Studio 2013, Team Foundation Server 2013 and .NET 4.51 are now available from MSDN. You can also download trials.

VS 2013 can be installed side by side with previous versions of Visual Studio or, if you have a VS 2013 pre-release, it can be installed straight on top of the pre-release. TFS 2013 cannot be installed side by side but can also be installed on top of either a previous version (TFS 2012 or TFS 2010) or a pre-release.

Learn more about what’s new in Visual Studio 2013.

What’s new in Visual C++ 2013 (excerpt from MSDN):

• Compiler
  • Added support for the following ISO C++11 language features:
    • Default template arguments for function templates.
    • Delegating constructors.
    • Explicit conversion operators.
    • Initializer lists and uniform initialization.
    • Raw string literals.
    • Variadic templates.
    • Alias templates.
    • Deleted functions.
    • Non-static data member initializers (NSDMIs).
    • Defaulted functions. (using =default to request memberwise move constructors and move assignment operators is not supported)
  • Added support for the following ISO C99 language features:
    • _Bool
    • Compound literals.
    • Designated initializers.
    • Mixing declarations with code.
  • String literal conversion to modifiable values can be disallowed by using the new compiler option /Zc:strictStrings. In C++98, conversion from string literals to char * (and wide string literals to wchar_t *) was deprecated. In C++11, the conversion was removed entirely. Although the compiler could strictly conform to the standard, instead it provides the /Zc:strictStrings option so that you can control conversion. By default, the option is off. Note that when you are using this option in debug mode, the STL will not compile.
  • rvalue/lvalue Reference Casts. With rvalue references, C++11 can clearly distinguish between lvalues and rvalues. Previously, the Visual C++ compiler did not provide this in specific casting scenarios. A new compiler option, /Zc:rvalueCast, has been added to make the compiler conformant with the C++ Language Working Paper(see section 5.4, [expr.cast]/1). The default behavior when this option is not specified is the same as in Visual Studio 2012.
• STL
  • Support for the C++11 explicit conversion operators, initializer lists, scoped enums, and variadic templates.
  • All containers now support the C++11 fine-grained element requirements.
  • Support for these C++14 features:
    • “Transparent operator functors” less<>, greater<>, plus<>, multiplies<>, and so on.
    • make_unique<T>(args…) and make_unique<T[]>(n)
    • cbegin()/cend(), rbegin()/rend(), and crbegin()/crend() non-member functions.
  • <atomic> received numerous performance enhancements.
  • <type_traits> received major stabilization and code fixes.

This list is just a small part of everything that’s new. There are also

• Visual C++ library enhancements
• C++ application performance enhancements
• Diagnostics enhancements
• 3D graphics enhancements
• Quite a few very nice IDE and Productivity enhancements.

Read all the details here.

Visual C++ 2013 now also supports “just my code” debugging which makes working with C++ even better. The ability to filter the call stack down to just the code you wrote when debugging has long existed for managed languages and is now available for C++ 🙂

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