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VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Faster C++ Development

July 11, 2022 Jul 11, 2022 07/11/22

David Li

Introduction Building on top of our performance wins in earlier releases of VS2022, we are excited to announce additional improvements in Visual Studio 2022 17.3! Whether you are a game developer, work with large codebases, or have a small C++ project, your C++ development experience in Visual Studio 17.3 will feel even faster! In this ...

DirectX game development with C++ in Visual Studio

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17

Rong Lu

Leverage the full power of C++ to build high-end games powered by DirectX to run on a variety of devices in the Windows family, including desktops, tablets, and phones. In this blog post we will dive into DirectX development with C++ in Visual Studio. First we'll look at how to acquire the tools needed for DirectX desktop and Universal Windows...

C++ game development workload in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17

Rong Lu

Visual Studio 2017 introduces a new "Game development with C++" workload, making it easy to get tools you need for building high-quality games with C++. Whether you’re using DirectX or powerful game engines such as Unreal Engine or Cocos2d, Visual Studio can install everything you need all at once to get you started quickly. In this blog ...