C++11 features in Visual Studio 2012

Question

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 1

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:

• rvalue references to version 2.1 from 2.0
• lambdas to version 1.1 from 1.0.
• decltype to version 1.1 from 1.0^{(not yet available in developer preview)}
• Improved, but still incomplete, Alignment
• completed strongly-typed enums
• forward declared enums
• Standard layout and trivial types
• Atomics
• Strong compare and exchange
• Bi-directional fences
• Data-dependency ordering
• Range-based for loop

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

• uniform initialization
• initializer lists
• variadic templates
• function template default arguments
• delegating constructors
• explicit conversion operators
• raw strings