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ARM GCC Cross Compilation in Visual Studio

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Marc Goodner
点这里看中文版 ⏱ Updated on January 10, 2018 to cover addition of debugging support in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 In Visual Studio 2017 15.5 we are introduced support for cross compilation targeting ARM microcontrollers. The 15.6 Preview 2 release adds debugging support. To enable this in the installation choose the Linux development ...

Remote tasks in Visual Studio

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Marc Goodner
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 Connection Manager. Remote tasks also provide the capability to copy files to the remote system. This feature is added when you install the Linux ...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension October 2017 update

October 20, 2017 Oct 20, 2017 10/20/17
Rong Lu
点这里看中文版 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 adding another feature to make IntelliSense setup easier - support for the compile_commands.json file, eliminating the need ...

Visual Studio 15.5 Preview 1 Productivity Improvements: Structure Visualizer, Ctrl + Click Go to Definition, Faster Find All References, and More

October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17
Augustin Popa
点这里看中文版 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 Productivity Power Tools extension inside the product: the Structure Visualizer, and Ctrl + Click to Go To Definition. In...

Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension September 2017 Update – more IntelliSense goodness!

October 4, 2017 Oct 4, 2017 10/4/17
Rong Lu
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. Even more exciting for us last week was the release of the September 2017 update, which brings in many new features to the extension...

Latest and Greatest in Visual Studio 2017 for C++ developers

September 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017 09/26/17
Andrew Pardoe
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. A video of the talk is available on YouTube:  If you're at the conference stop by our booth on the fourth floor to ask questions, grab a T-shirt, and take our ...

The Microsoft C++ team is at CppCon 2017

September 22, 2017 Sep 22, 2017 09/22/17
Andrew Pardoe
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 year: We'll also be participating on a few panels: There are also some talks from other ...

CMake support in Visual Studio – CMake 3.9, Linux targeting, feedback

September 14, 2017 Sep 14, 2017 09/14/17
Will Buik
点这里看中文版 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 CMakeLists, and supports targeting Linux directly. Please check out the preview and try out the latest CMake features...

Two-phase name lookup support comes to MSVC

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
Andrew Pardoe
点这里看中文版 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 resolution of names used in a template declaration. These rules were formalized more than two decades ago in an attempt to ...

Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017

August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017 08/29/17
Adam Welch (MSFT)
点这里看中文版 ⏱ Updated on Jan 17, 2018 with information on ImageWatch and Child Process Debugging 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 heard from many of you ...