Visual Studio 2012 has fixed a lot of bugs in C++11 features which were present in Visual Studio 2010.

Of course, VS2010 was released before the C++ standard was finalised. Now that the standard is final, Visual Studio doesn’t have to follow a moving target, and its compliance with the standard is getting a lot better.

This means that you can drop a lot of the workarounds or start using features you’ve previously avoided. Your code can be cleaner and more straightforward.

Let’s have a look at some of the bugs which are now history…
Lambda bugs
Using lambdas in the previous version of Visual …

Some people were disappointed with the level of C++11 support in Visual Studio 2012.

Let’s look on the bright side though. There are still lots of useful C++11 additions you can use to make your code cleaner and faster.

Language support has been improved in little ways. More significantly, the standard library is now meant to be complete (minus the stuff relying on non-implemented language features).

Here’s an overview of the C++11 additions…

Language additions and changes

1 The most visible new language feature is the range based for-loop. It made it into the release quite unexpectedly at the last …