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Directly Edit Unreal Engine Projects in Visual Studio 2022

December 12, 2023 Dec 12, 2023 12/12/23
David Li
Introduction (image) We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview 2 offers direct support for Unreal Engine projects. We would like to give a special thank you to the folks at Epic Games. Our on-going collaboration made this feature possible. In addition, this feature relies on the latest features of Unreal ...

Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy

December 14, 2021 Dec 14, 2021 12/14/21
Julia Reid
The latest insiders release of the C++ extension is here, bringing clang-tidy support to VS Code! Clang-tidy is a clang-based C++ linter tool that detects common errors in your code, like style violations and bugs that can be deduced via static analysis. Clang-tidy integration was one of our top asks on GitHub, so we’re excited to announce ...

Announcing a single C++ library manager for Linux, macOS and Windows: Vcpkg

April 24, 2018 Apr 24, 2018 04/24/18
EricMittelette
At Microsoft, the core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform” and we are committed to bringing you the most productive development tools and services to build your apps across all platforms. With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce today the availability of vcpkg on Linux and MacOS. This gives you immediate access to...

Vcpkg: Introducing the upgrade command

January 16, 2018 Jan 16, 2018 01/16/18
EricMittelette
If you’re just getting started and want to learn more about vcpkg, check out our initial post. We recently added a new option to vcpkg (i.e. vcpkg contact --survey) to provide a direct way to share your feedback with the Vcpkg team. A big thank you to those of you that shared your thoughts and suggestions with the team through this new ...

Vcpkg: Using multiple enlistments to handle multiple versions of a library

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
EricMittelette
Vcpkg allows you to acquire and build 3rd party libraries on Windows. Once cloned, the vcpkg directory (enlistment) provides a stable set of libraries that are all compatible and based on the latest published version of these libraries. Occasionally, you may need different versions of the same library. By design, you can’t have two different...

Vcpkg: introducing export command

May 3, 2017 May 3, 2017 05/3/17
EricMittelette
Vcpkg helps you acquire and build open source libraries on Windows. Since September 2016, the community added more than 200 libraries in the vcpkg catalog and has been contributing actively to the code itself. Vcpkg now supports Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 and can target dynamic or static libraries and platforms like x64, x86 or ...

Vcpkg updates: Static linking is now available

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
EricMittelette
One month ago, we announced the availability of Vcpkg a command line tool to easily acquire and build open source C++ lib and consume it in Visual Studio 2015. The initial release provided only dynamic link libraries, but we heard your feedback, and we are pleased to announce static linking support with Vcpkg. To generate static libraries, ...

Range-v3 on MSVC is Available on GitHub

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
EricMittelette
We are delighted to announce that the Visual C++ Team just published an implementation of range-v3 on the Microsoft GitHub repo. This contribution comes hot on the heels of our recent work to improve expression SFINAE on our Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 VC++ compiler . This is the first implementation of the Range TS running in MSVC. In “...