C++ Team Blog

Visual Studio features for C++ Header Files and Modules

April 25, 2024 Apr 25, 2024 04/25/24

Mryam Girmay

In the field of C++ programming, the management of header files and modules can often seem challenging. However, there are numerous tools and features available that can simplify this process, enhancing efficiency and reducing the likelihood of errors. Here’s a walkthrough for several tools that we provide for C++ headers and modules. Run ...

Pure Virtual C++ Pre-Conference Videos – Linux Development, Modules, Containers and more!

April 22, 2024 Apr 22, 2024 04/22/24

Sy Brand

(image)   Pure Virtual C++ is our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it will run on April 30th 15:00 UTC. Sign-up for free to get access to our five sessions on the day. Half of the pre-conference content for the conference is now available. We have videos on a host of topics...

VS Code C++ Extension 1.19 Release: 3.6x faster Go To Symbol & 1.5x faster colorization

April 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 04/18/24

Alexandra Kemper

With our recent 1.19 release, performance was our biggest focus for the C++ Extension in Visual Studio Code. This included features like progressive population of IntelliSense results and faster symbol searching. With these enhancements, you can begin writing C++ code when opening a file quicker than ever before. Additionally, we also added ...

Templates View for Build Insights in Visual Studio 

April 15, 2024 Apr 15, 2024 04/15/24

Lauren Prinn, Hannah Chandley

Introduction Introducing the new Templates View feature of Build Insights! Templates View now allows you to capture data about how templates in your codebase are contributing to your build time. This feature is available in Visual Studio 2022 17.10 and later.   Download Visual Studio 2022  Getting Started with Templates View  To use ...

MSVC Address Sanitizer adoption in .NET’s CoreCLR

April 12, 2024 Apr 12, 2024 04/12/24

Zachary Johnson

Collaboration to improve the reliability and security of .NET, from the perspective of an MSVC Address Sanitizer Developer Introduction .NET (on GitHub) is a cross-platform, open-source, and general-purpose development platform with widespread adoption. A core component of .NET is the Core Common Language Runtime (CoreCLR), which provides ...

Time Travel Debugging team uses Copilot Chat for C++

April 10, 2024 Apr 10, 2024 04/10/24

Sinem Akinci

Ken Sykes and Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (JCAB) are both Principal Software Engineers who work on the Time Travel Debugging team at Microsoft, which is the team that maintains and develops the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) and related technologies. Their codebase is developed with C++ and CMake, and they primarily use Visual Studio Code for ...

How Copilot is being used by the Time Travel Debugging team for repetitive C++ coding

April 3, 2024 Apr 3, 2024 04/3/24

Sinem Akinci

Background  Ken Sykes and Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (JCAB) are both Principal Software Engineers who work on Time Travel Debugging at Microsoft. They are part of the team that maintains and develops the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) and related technologies. Their codebase is developed with C++ and CMake and they primarily use VS Code for day-to...

Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Sessions Announced

April 3, 2024 Apr 3, 2024 04/3/24

Sy Brand

(image) Pure Virtual C++ is our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it will run on April 30th 15:00 UTC. Sign-up for free to get access to our five sessions on the day and a host of pre-conference content. Here is the list of sessions...

What’s New in vcpkg (March 2024)

March 29, 2024 Mar 29, 2024 03/29/24

Augustin Popa

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.03.19 and 2024.03.25 releases as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout March. This month’s vcpkg release includes an arm64ec platform expression, more flexibility when mixing static and dynamic libraries, diagnostics improvements, a change in the ...

Improvements in Variable Visibility when Debugging

March 22, 2024 Mar 22, 2024 03/22/24

Terry Mahaffey

In Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 2, we’re including a small quality-of-life improvement that results in the Watch/Locals window displaying local variables correctly for any arbitrary frames in the call stack in debug builds. To try it out, please install the recently released Preview. For more information, read on.  The problem: ...