CMake Support in Visual Studio: Customizing your Environment
In Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 4, there are new ways for you to apply advanced configuration to your CMake environments. Please download the preview and try out the latest CMake features. If you are...
View ArticleHow to use the C++ Core Guidelines Checker outside of Visual Studio
This post written by Sergiy Oryekhov and Andrew Pardoe The latest C++ Core Guidelines Checker is deployed as a part of the Native Code Analysis tools in Visual Studio 2017 15.3. These tools are...
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Changes to Project Templates and Code Wizards in 15.3
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.3 is a major release with many different improvements coming to the product. You can learn more about these changes in the 15.3 Release Notes. One aspect I want to...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension August 2017 Update
Last week we shipped the August 2017 update to the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension. Besides several bug fixes, this update includes a new command for resetting the IntelliSense database file and...
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Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake
In Visual Studio 2017 15.4 you can now target Linux from your CMake projects. This enables you to work on your existing code base that uses CMake as your build solution without having to convert it to...
View ArticleA new C++/WinRT update is available
A new update of C++/WinRT is available on GitHub! C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime, implemented solely in header files. The C++/WinRT team has been quiet since...
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Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017
In this blogpost we want to highlight several Visual Studio extensions that can make your life better as a C++ developer if you’re using Visual Studio 2017 or considering upgrading. We have also...
View ArticleTwo-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC
This post written by Tanveer Gani, Stephan T. Lavavej, Andrew Marino, Gabriel Dos Reis, and Andrew Pardoe “Two-phase name lookup” is an informal term that refers to a set of rules governing the...
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CMake support in Visual Studio – CMake 3.9, Linux targeting, feedback
Visual Studio 2017 15.4 Preview 2 is now available and includes enhancements to Visual Studio’s CMake tools. The latest preview upgrades CMake to version 3.9, includes better support for independent...
View ArticleThe Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017
The Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017. Take our survey, attend talks by our team members, and drop by our booth to say hello! Visual Studio team members are presenting in a great set of talks this...
View ArticleLatest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers
Daniel Moth and Steve Carroll shared what’s new in VS 2017 and Updates for C++ developers at CppCon yesterday. You can grab the slides from the talk here, or here in PDF format. If you’re at the...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension September 2017 Update – more IntelliSense...
The Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension has had over one million downloads in the past two months! We are very happy to see so much interest in the most popular C++ extension for Visual Studio Code....
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15.5 Preview 1 Productivity Improvements: Structure Visualizer, Ctrl + Click...
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.5 Preview 1 brings you a number of productivity and performance improvements that will save you time as a C++ developer. For this release, we brought two features from the...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension October 2017 update
Yesterday we shipped the October 2017 update of the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension. Following the lightbulb suggestions for IntelliSense include path feature that was shipped last month, we’re...
View ArticleRemote tasks in Visual Studio
We have introduced a new capability to run remote tasks in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2. This capability allows you to run any command on a remote system that is defined in Visual Studio’s...
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ARM GCC Cross Compilation in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2 we are introducing support for cross compilation targeting ARM microcontrollers. To enable this in the installation choose the Linux development with C++ workload...
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Vcpkg: Using multiple enlistments
Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest...
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Unit Testing: Test Adapter for Google Test goes in-box!
If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about C++ Unit Testing, check out our tutorial. Here on the Visual C++ team, we want to make your unit testing experience as enjoyable as...
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CMake Support in Visual Studio – Import Your CMake Cache
Configuring a CMake project to build in just the way you want can often be a time intensive process, so in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 preview we have made it easier than ever to import your existing CMake...
View ArticleC++/WinRT is now included the Windows SDK
If you write code for the Universal Windows Platform you’re familiar with the C++/CX language extensions. These extensions let the compiler create “language projections” for the Windows Runtime...
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