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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. ...

vcpkg 2023.02.24 Release: Default Triplet Changes, RISC-V support, Bug Fixes, and More…

March 6, 2023 Mar 6, 2023 03/6/23

Augustin Popa

The 2023.02.24 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from January 10th, 2023 to February 24th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes Notable changes for this ...

std::string now supports Address Sanitizer

March 6, 2023 Mar 6, 2023 03/6/23

Nicole Mazzuca

The standard library now checks for more incorrect usage using the ASan "container overflow" feature in `std::string`.

Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 17.6

March 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 03/3/23

Gabor Horvath

Code Analysis Improvements in VS 17.6

Importing ST projects into Visual Studio

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Marc Goodner

Last year we introduced the ability to import ST projects in Visual Studio Code. We’re happy to announce the availability of this feature in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 as well. In the world of Arm microcontrollers there are many silicon vendors, one of the largest is STMicroelectronics. ST has a large catalog of available devices with many ...