C++11 features in Visual Studio 2012

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HighCommander4 picture HighCommander4 · Sep 14, 2011 · Viewed 60.4k times · Source

A preview version of Visual Studio 2012 (the next version after VS2010) is now available.

Does anyone know what new C++11 features it supports? (I'm not in a position to try it out at the moment).

Answer

Joel Coehoorn picture Joel Coehoorn · Sep 14, 2011

It's worth noting that Visual Studio 2010 already had quite a bit of early C++11 support. So to summarize what is already linked to in other answers, here is what is new in Visual Studio 11 that was not part of Visual Studio 2010:

In early November 2012, Microsoft announced the Visual C++ Compiler November 2012 CTP, which adds more C++11 functionality to Visual Studio 2012:

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