You’ve just started a new job and landed in front of a huge code base. Great! What a challenge! It would be nice to quickly get a general understanding of your project and be able to comfortably move around in the code. How do you do it? In the article you can find my list of three set of tools from Visual Assist that might help with this problem.

C++11 conformance GCC 4.81 - 100% Clang 3.3 - 100% Intel 14.0 - 84% Visual C++ 2013 - 66% Another year is almost over so it is a good time to check what is going on with C++. This time more stats and real data compared to my post from the previous year.

Recently, I’ve found something interesting in Visual Studio that improved my Logger! I had a function called AddMsg /** appends message to the log file */ void AddMsg(LOG_MODE m, int level, char* strModule, char *strMsg, ...); But, when you wanted to add a comment you needed to use quite complicated and long syntnax, like: