vcpkg June 2022 Release is Now Available: Force Download vcpkg Dependencies, Documentation Changes, and More

June 22, 2022 Jun 22, 2022 06/22/22
Augustin Popa
The June 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This includes a hotfix that fixed a regression in the binary caching experience. This blog post summarizes changes from May 11th, 2022 to June 15th, 2022 for the microsoft/vcpkg and microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. In the past month, the ISO C++ 2022 Annual Developer Survey ...

What’s New in CMake for VS Code

June 15, 2022 Jun 15, 2022 06/15/22
Sinem Akinci
The latest version of CMake tools is now available for download in the VS Code Marketplace or using the .vsix file. We have been working hard on improving the CMake experience and are excited to share some new features and improvements for users starting in version 1.11.  ‘CMake’ task provider updates  We have added more options to the...

Serial and Zephyr support for Visual Studio and VS Code

June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 06/7/22
Marc Goodner
We are continuing to improve our embedded development support in Visual Studio and VS Code. We have recently introduced a serial monitor and RTOS support for Zephyr. These capabilities are present in Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 1 as part of the Linux and embedded development workload. The Embedded Tools extension for VS Code also includes these...

MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2

June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 06/7/22
Chris Pulido
In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 we have continued to improve the C++ backend with new features, new and improved optimizations, build throughput improvements, and better security. Here is a list of improvements for you to review. Do you want to experience the new improvements ...

MSVC’s STL Completes /std:c++20

May 10, 2022 May 10, 2022 05/10/22
Casey Carter
We are happy to announce that the final C++20 Standard Library features are now stabilized and available in /std:c++20 mode in both Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 and Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11.14. This notably includes several proposals approved as Defect Reports (DRs) by the C++ Standard Committee against the C++20 Standard Library ...