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Windows Wednesday
Windows Wednesday
December 17, 2021 Dec 17, 2021 12/17/21
Hey everyone! We have an exciting new web show planned to launch next year called Windows Wednesday that we'd love to tell you more about. 🙂 What is Windows Wednesday? Windows Wednesday is a weekly 30-minute live web show where we'll talk about anything related to Windows. We'll invite subject matter experts to talk about their tools ...
Connecting USB devices to WSL
Connecting USB devices to WSL
November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21
I’m a software engineer building tooling for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code to support C++ embedded device development. These physical devices typically connect to a computer over USB, but we discovered we couldn’t use WSL to test our tools on Linux because it does not support USB. We weren’t alone — support for connecting ...
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux for Intel GPUs
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux for Intel GPUs
November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21
We are happy to announce, that in partnership with Intel, we are bringing support for hardware accelerated OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL on Intel GPUs to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Support for these APIs in WSL further increases the choices of compute APIs available to developers and ensures the best performance and functionality...
Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 Release
Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 Release
October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21
Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 is here and it's HUGE! This release adds the new features below to Windows Terminal Preview 1.12 and adds the features from this previous blog post to Windows Terminal 1.11. Windows Terminal 1.11 will also be receiving the Defaults page in the settings UI along with the default terminal functionality. You can ...
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available!
October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) preview is now available in the Microsoft Store as a store application for Windows 11 machines! Installing WSL through the store will allow you to get the latest WSL updates and features faster, and without needing to modify your Windows version. Read on to see how that’s possible and what this means for...
Windows Package Manager 1.1
Windows Package Manager 1.1
October 5, 2021 Oct 5, 2021 10/5/21
I’m excited to share some great news. We’re releasing Windows Package Manager 1.1. We’ve squashed some annoying bugs and added some highly anticipated features. The Windows Package Manager is being released to Windows 10 (build 1809 and newer) and Windows 11 as an automatic update via the Microsoft Store. The moment we’ve been waiting ...
Install WSL with a single command now available in Windows 10 version 2004 and higher
Install WSL with a single command now available in Windows 10 version 2004 and higher
July 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021 07/30/21
In the latest Windows Insider Preview builds, you can install everything you need to run WSL just by running wsl.exe --install. We’re excited to announce that this functionality is now officially backported to Windows 10 version 2004 and higher, which will make installing WSL on those builds much easier! Using wsl --install The process ...
Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022
Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022
July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21
This post is written by Erika Sweet, a Program Manager on Microsoft's C++ Team. Visual Studio 2022 introduces a native WSL 2 toolset for C++ development. This toolset is available now in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2. WSL 2 is the new, recommended version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture that provides better ...