Microsoft* Visual C++* Compatibility

Microsoft* Visual Studio* Integration

The Intel® C++ Compiler is compatible with Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015 projects.

The Intel® C++ Compiler only supports native C++ project types provided by Visual Studio* development environment. The project types with .NET attributes such as the ones below, cannot be converted to an Intel® C++ project:

• Empty Project (.NET)

• Class Library (.NET)

• Console Application (.NET)

• Windows Control Library (.NET)

• Windows Forms Application (.NET)

• Windows Service (.NET)

Unsupported Major Features

• COM Attributes

• C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)

• Managed extensions for C++ (new pragmas, keywords, and command-line options)

• Event handling (new keywords)

• __abstract keyword

• __box keyword

• __delegate keyword

• __gc keyword

• __identifier keyword

• __nogc keyword

• __pin keyword

• __property keyword

• __sealed keyword

• __try_cast keyword

• __w64 keyword

Unsupported Preprocessor Features

• #import directive changes for attributed code

• #using directive

• managed, unmanaged pragmas

• _MANAGED macro

• runtime_checks pragma

Mixing Managed and Unmanaged Code

If you use the managed extensions to the C++ language in Microsoft* Visual Studio .NET*, you can use the Intel® C++ Compiler for your non-managed code for better application performance. Make sure managed keywords do not appear in your non-managed code.

For information on how to mix managed and unmanaged code, refer to the article, "An Overview of Managed/Unmanaged Code Interoperability", on the Microsoft* Web site.