C++ Team Blog

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: ...

Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Conference

March 19, 2024 Mar 19, 2024 03/19/24

Sy Brand

(image) Every year we run Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. Next month we’re doing it again! Sign-up for free to get access to our five live sessions and a host of pre-conference content. The live event will start at April 30th 15:00 UTC. Videos will be available to stream for free on ...

Using Copilot Chat with C++ in VS Code

March 13, 2024 Mar 13, 2024 03/13/24

Sinem Akinci

If you are a C++ developer who uses VS Code as your editor, Copilot Chat can help you with many of your everyday coding tasks by allowing you to iterate with your code in natural language. Download GitHub Copilot Chat To access GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat, you will need an active subscription to GitHub Copilot. Chat features are ...

What’s New in vcpkg (February 2024)

February 29, 2024 Feb 29, 2024 02/29/24

Augustin Popa

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.02.14 release and changes to vcpkg documentation throughout February. This month’s vcpkg release was mainly minor bug fixes, while several new documentation articles were added. Some stats for this period:   vcpkg changelog (...

MSVC Backend Updates since Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3

February 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024 02/21/24

Bran Hagger

Since Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3, we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, improved support for arm64 and OpenMP, and new and improved optimizations across all architectures.

What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.9

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

Sy Brand

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page. Standard ...

Visual Studio Code CMake Tools Extension 1.17 Update: CMake Presets v6, Overriding Cache Variables, and Side Bar Updates

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

Sinem Akinci

The February release of the CMake Tools extension in VS Code is now available. With this release, we have three major new updates to the extension, including some of our highly upvoted requests: To view the full list of updates with this release, please look at our CHANGELOG. This release features 2 contributions from our open...