C++ Team Blog

18x Faster IntelliSense for Unreal Engine Projects in Visual Studio 2022

David Li October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

We joined forces with Epic Games to bring faster semantic highlighting and IntelliSense ready to Visual Studio 2022 for Unreal Engine developers. In this blog post, we will detail how we worked with the Unreal Engine team to significantly speed up IntelliSense ready by 18x.

Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2021

Sy Brand October 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 10/25/21

The Microsoft C++ team has an exciting lineup of sessions at CppCon 2021. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the main hall for the first two days of the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions about our talks, products, or anything else! You can also join the #visual_studio channel on the ...

A Race Condition in .NET Finalization and its Mitigation for C++/CLI

Tanveer Gani October 15, 2021 Oct 15, 2021 10/15/21

Race conditions can occur in .NET finalization. This article explains the solution implemented in MSVC.

Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 4

Gabor Horvath October 8, 2021 Oct 8, 2021 10/8/21

Improved Null Pointer Dereference Detection in Visual Studio 2022

Static Analysis Fixes in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11

Gabor Horvath September 13, 2021 Sep 13, 2021 09/13/21

List of Code Analysis Fixes in Visual Studio 2019 16.11

MSVC C++20 and the /std:c++20 Switch

Daniel Griffing September 2, 2021 Sep 2, 2021 09/2/21

We are excited to announce that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11, we have added the /std:c++20 switch to the set of language mode switches available. The addition of this switch indicates that we’ve reached a point of sufficient stabilization of the MSVC C++20 feature set for it be used in production, with full support in VS servicing ...

C++20 Coroutine Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11

Jonathan Emmett August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

This post includes contributions from Terry Mahaffey and Ramkumar Ramesh. We last blogged about coroutine support in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8. In the releases since 16.8 we've introduced several new coroutine features and improvements. This post is a round up of those improvements, all available in Visual Studio 2019 16.11. ...

New Compiler Warnings for Dynamic Initialization and User Defined Sections

Xiang Fan August 24, 2021 Aug 24, 2021 08/24/21

We've added two new warnings to MSVC for misuses of binary sections reserved for the compiler. This short post will explain the issues which they warn against, and potential fixes for your code. The MSVC C++ compiler provides several ways to create sections and place data in them. The linker will convert them into the 'sections' in the PE (...

Attach to a Remote Process with LLDB in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3

Erika Sweet August 11, 2021 Aug 11, 2021 08/11/21

You can now use Attach to Process to remote debug processes with GDB or LLDB in Visual Studio. The ability to attach to a process running on a remote system with GDB was added in Visual Studio 2019. The ability to attach to a process with LLDB is new in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3. Remote debugging in Visual Studio is especially valuable ...

ARM64EC Support in Visual Studio

Moyo Okeremi August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”) is a new application binary interface for building apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With ARM64EC, you can build new native apps that can run on ARM or incrementally transition existing x64 apps to native performance on ARM. With Visual Studio, you can start building your projects as ARM64EC and enjoy the benefits.