GoingNative 54: What's New In Visual Studio 2017 RC and Introduction To Vcpkg

This episode of GoingNative comes to you in two parts: First, Steve chats with Augustin Popa about the latest and greatest features in Visual Studio 2017 RC. Second, Robert Schumacher talks about the new open source Windows package manager, Vcpkg. Vcpkg has been picked up enthusiastically by the community with a growing collection of supported libraries (90+ at the time this video was posted). Link to the GitHub for Vcpkg (https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg). More information on the Vcpkg blog post including a list of all packaged libraries (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/09/19/vcpkg-a-tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows/) Timestamps: - [ 01:00 ] Visual Studio 2017 RC - [ 01:25 ] Acquisition overhaul - new installer! - [ 03:32 ] Performance improvements - [ 05:05 ] Productivity enhancements - [ 13:03 ] Call to action - [ 13:34 ] Vcpkg - [ 14:09 ] What is Vcpkg? - [ 19:29 ] Community response - [ 20:17 ] Vcpkg vs. NuGet for C++ - [ 24:52 ] How to get it, and VS versions supported - [ 26:54 ] Demo - [ 27:00 ] Installing - [ 28:18 ] Using Vcpkg - [ 32:01 ] CMake support - [ 34:09 ] Community call to action