C++ Team Blog

What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.10

May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024 05/22/24

Sy Brand

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page. Standard ...

C++ at VS Code Day 2024

May 16, 2024 May 16, 2024 05/16/24

Alexandra Kemper

Looking to get caught up on new C++ features released in the last year? Check out the new YouTube video What’s New with C++ in VS Code posted for VS Code Day 2024. VS Code Day is an annual event hosted by the VS Code team which lets you elevate your development workflow with the latest and greatest features from Visual Studio Code. Sessions ...

Use AI-Powered Rename Suggestions to rename your C++ variables in Visual Studio

May 13, 2024 May 13, 2024 05/13/24

Sinem Akinci

We are very excited to announce C++ support for AI-Powered Rename Suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022. Seamlessly integrated into your familiar Rename workflow in the IDE, AI-powered rename suggestions dynamically generate name suggestions for any C++ identifier. It will generate proposed names based on its usage and your ...

Pure Virtual C++ 2024 Recordings Now Available

May 13, 2024 May 13, 2024 05/13/24

Sy Brand

All recordings for our Pure Virtual C++ 2024 conference are now available. Thanks to everyone who came along and hope to see you again next year! You can find the full playlist on YouTube. Main Sessions Automated Test of Shader Code - Keith Stockdale Message Handling with Boolean Implication - Ben Deane I Embedded a Programming ...

Building your C++ Code with CMake in VS Code

May 9, 2024 May 9, 2024 05/9/24

Alexandra Kemper

Build systems can help you manage your C++ project as it grows in scope and complexity, whether you are adding new features, dependencies, or cross-platform support. A popular choice in the C++ community is CMake which supports cross-platform development, streamlines build processes and configurations, and has many levels of customization. It ...

What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024)

May 8, 2024 May 8, 2024 05/8/24

Augustin Popa

What’s New in vcpkg (April 2024) This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.04.26 release as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout April. This month’s vcpkg release includes improvements for visually generated dependency graphs, a new triplet variable for tweaking what files are ...

New Checks Since Visual Studio 2022 17.8

May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 05/3/24

Gabor Horvath

The C++ team is committed to making your C++ coding experience as safe as possible. In the last couple of releases, we added new safety checks based on the requests of internal customers like the Windows group. Below is the overview of the new checks. For additional information for each of the checks, please refer to the linked help documents...

OpenMP improvements in Visual Studio C/C++ compiler: triangular loop collapse

April 30, 2024 Apr 30, 2024 04/30/24

Vadim Paretsky

Our previous blog post about OpenMP support in Visual Studio announced support for the loop feature in version 17.8.  In the meantime, we have continued working on improving the feature and, in Visual Studio 2022 17.10, we have added a new, more efficient algorithm for partitioning work of certain types of collapsed triangular loops ...

Pure Virtual C++ 2024 is Now Live!

April 30, 2024 Apr 30, 2024 04/30/24

Sy Brand

(image) Pure Virtual C++, our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community, is now live! Check it out on YouTube: The sessions are...

Pure Virtual C++ 2024 is Tomorrow

April 29, 2024 Apr 29, 2024 04/29/24

Sy Brand

(image) Pure Virtual C++ is our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it will run on April 30th 15:00 UTC. Sign-up for free to get access to our five sessions on the day. The sessions are: We've added a host of new pre-conference content which you can check out in the meantime...