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C++ Modules in CMake with Visual Studio

We’ve seen a lot of excitement around C++ modules since we announced support in the Microsoft C++ compiler and Visual Studio. Ever since, the community has been asking us when CMake support was coming. I am happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.2 Preview 2 has experimental support for C++ modules in CMake projects. One caveat for this...


Example of an application targeting MacOS from Windows Visual Studio
Visual Studio for remote macOS C++ development

The latest preview version of Visual Studio is now available to download. In this latest release, users wishing to develop cross platform C++ applications for macOS can now make use of Visual Studio’s Linux tools with CMake to target the Mac. There is some setup required on the Mac side to enable the support, but then the Mac is treated just...