C++ Team Blog

An alternative to __if_exists in ATL

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

Anju Del Moral Gonzalez

What are and The and keywords in the Active Template Library (ATL) allow a user to test at compile time whether an identifier exists.  If the identifier exists, the associated statement block is executed.  and can be applied to the names of variables, functions, typedefs, as well as other identifiers.  You can read more about the ...

View files on your Remote Machines using the new Remote File Explorer in Visual Studio

February 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023 02/27/23

Sinem Akinci

We are excited to announce that we have added a new tool window, the Remote File Explorer, to Visual Studio in version 17.6 Preview 1.  This window provides you with the ability to browse, upload, and download files and folders on your remote machines that you are connected to via the Connection Manager within your Visual Studio instance...

CMake debugger allows you to debug your CMake scripts and more

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23

Sinem Akinci

The VS CMake team has been working in close collaboration with Kitware on developing a debugger for CMake scripts in the Visual Studio IDE (see this open Kitware issue for more details). We will be contributing this work back upstream (targeting the 3.27 release) so that the developer community can have it and work to improve it together, by ...

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 for C++ Developers

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23

Sy Brand

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. See the Visual Studio 17.5 announcement to learn about all of the features in the release. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade ...

Unreal Engine Integrations Now Available in Visual Studio 2022

February 16, 2023 Feb 16, 2023 02/16/23

David Li

(image) Since the release of Visual Studio 2022, we have been focusing on building a cascade of productivity and performance improvements for game and large project developers. Today, we are happy to share the next set of features specifically aimed towards improving productivity for Unreal Engine development. We have heard and seen a ...

Minecraft’s WSL build time cut in half after working with Visual Studio C++ team

February 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 02/15/23

Sinem Akinci

The Minecraft Publishing team, within Mojang Studios, reached out to the Visual Studio C++ team because they needed to expand C++ development to a new platform (Linux) while respecting their existing technological base (MSBuild) and these constraints prevented them from pursuing more established cross-platform pipelines. When developing with ...

Remote Native Unit Test Support in Visual Studio

February 1, 2023 Feb 1, 2023 02/1/23

Moyo Okeremi

Remote C++ unit testing enables developers to connect Visual Studio 2022 to remote windows environments for running and debugging C++ desktop application tests. This functionality is useful for developers who deploy code to different Windows target environments such as different Windows architectures. With this feature, you can run tests on ...

VS Code C++ Extension January Update: Create Definitions and Declarations

January 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023 01/31/23

Alexandra Kemper

Starting with the 1.13.6 version of the C++ Extension in VS Code, we are happy to share a much requested feature: Auto creation of definitions or declarations for functions! You can now quickly create a declaration in a header file for a function you only have a definition for, or vice versa. These generated definitions and declarations ...

Debug Linux Console apps in Visual Studio’s Integrated Terminal

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Sinem Akinci

We have now added the capability for users to debug their C++ Linux Console applications from the Integrated Terminal in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3! To learn more about what the Integrated Terminal does and how to work with it in Visual Studio, please see this C++ feature announcement blog post.  Now, using the Linux Console ...

C++ Brace Pair Colorization and More in Visual Studio

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Mryam Girmay

Visual Studio 17.5 brings you several new improvements in the C++ editing experience. Now we are excited to announce that C++ Brace Pair Colorization, Spell Checker, All-In-One Search, Reimagined Member List, and Macro Expansion Improvements are released in the Visual Studio Preview.   These features are also part of our focus on ...