C++ Team Blog

Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23

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 run June 6th 13:00-16:00 UTC. Videos will be available to stream for free on ...

What’s New for CMake Tools 1.14 in VS Code – Test Explorer

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Sinem Akinci

The team has been working hard to provide new highly requested capabilities for CMake users. Now, in version 1.14, we have provided a new Test Explorer for using CTest with your CMake projects. This release also features open-source community contributions from users. Thanks for your contributions! Test Explorer One of our most highly-...

Documentation for C++20 Ranges

April 26, 2023 Apr 26, 2023 04/26/23

Sy Brand, Tyler Whitney

C++20 introduced Ranges to the standard library: a new way of expressing composable transformations on collections of data. This feature adds a huge amount of expressive power and flexibility to C++. As with many concepts in C++, that power comes with new concepts to learn, and some complexity which can be difficult to navigate. One way of ...

Fill in the ISO C++ Developer Survey

April 24, 2023 Apr 24, 2023 04/24/23

Sy Brand

The ISO C++ developer survey runs every year and is a great help to us in prioritizing work based on what the community cares about. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete and closes tomorrow, so please take the time to fill it out.  ...

vcpkg 2023.04.15 Release: vcpkg ships in Visual Studio, Xbox triplets, GitHub Actions Cache Support, and More…

April 22, 2023 Apr 22, 2023 04/22/23

Augustin Popa

The 2023.04.15 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from February 25th, 2023 to April 15th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes vcpkg now included with Visual ...

Functional exception-less error handling with C++23’s optional and expected

April 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023 04/18/23

Sy Brand

C++23's new facilities for handling disappointments without exceptions.

Even faster builds with Incredibuild 10 and Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 3

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23

Michael Price

Note: This post was co-authored with Incredibuild's Director of Product Marketing, Yohai West. We are pleased to announce that Visual Studio version 17.6 Preview 3 includes Incredibuild's most advanced developer acceleration platform: Incredibuild 10. This release includes several notable, new features that empower teams to speed up the ...

C++23’s New Fold Algorithms

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23

Sy Brand

New fold algorithms in C++23, what they do, how to use them.

Maximize Unreal Engine Development with the Latest Integrations in Visual Studio 2022

March 29, 2023 Mar 29, 2023 03/29/23

David Li

Introduction (image) Since our announcement last month, the team has been working hard on building a new round of Unreal Engine integrations. Today, we are happy to show you the next set of features that can level up your game development productivity. In this article, you will learn about how to stream Unreal Logs, see Unreal Header Tool...

Create C++ Member Function in Visual Studio

March 28, 2023 Mar 28, 2023 03/28/23

Mryam Girmay

We are excited to announce that Create C++ Member Function can now be used to quickly add constructor and equality operator (operator ==) in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2. When you have a class with fields, you can add a default constructor, constructor with all fields, equality operator, and equality operator with all fields easily. ...