vcpkg 2022.11.14 and 2022.10.19 Releases: Localization for 14 Languages, Overlay Ports/Triplets in Manifests, acquire-project Command, and More…

November 16, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 11/16/22
Augustin Popa
The 2022.11.14 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from September 27th, 2022 to November 13th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes Notable changes for this release are summarized ...

Visual Studio 2022 Performance: Faster C++ Source Code Indexing

November 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022 11/15/22
Victor Ciura
Building on top of our performance wins in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3, we are excited to announce additional improvements in version 17.4. Whether you are a game developer, work with large codebases, or have solutions with many C++ projects, your development experience in Visual Studio 2022 17.4 will feel even faster. In 17.4 we ...

What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.4

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22
Sy Brand
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 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. Arm64 In 17.3, ...

Fix for High Risk OpenSSL Security Vulnerabilities Announced – Guidance for vcpkg Users

November 2, 2022 Nov 2, 2022 11/2/22
Augustin Popa
OpenSSL.org announced the release of OpenSSL 3.0.7 to address two security vulnerabilities rated as high risk. This patch is now available, including via vcpkg. The vulnerabilities impact users of OpenSSL 3.0.0 - 3.0.6. If you are relying on a version of OpenSSL in this range, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to 3.0.7 as soon as possible...

Improving Copy and Move Elision

October 24, 2022 Oct 24, 2022 10/24/22
Bran Hagger
With Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 Preview 3, we've significantly increased the number of situations where we do copy or move elision and given users more control over whether these transformations are enabled. What are copy and move elision? When a return keyword in a C++ function is followed by an expression of non-primitive type, the ...

vcpkg September 2022 Release is Now Available: Celebrating 6 Years with Over 2000 Libraries!

October 6, 2022 Oct 6, 2022 10/6/22
Augustin Popa
The September 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from August 15th, 2022 to September 27th, 2022 for the Microsoft/vcpkg and Microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos.   vcpkg now has over 2,000 unique libraries in its open-source registry With this release, and the 6th anniversary of the...
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Announcing NuGet PackageReference support for C++/CLI MSBuild projects targeting .NET Core and .NET 5 or higher

October 3, 2022 Oct 3, 2022 10/3/22
Augustin Popa
One of the new features for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 is NuGet PackageReference support for C++/CLI MSBuild projects that target .NET Core and .NET 5 or higher. More specifically, this impacts CLR Class Library (.NET) and CLR Empty Project (.NET) project templates. This functionality allows you to manage NuGet packages ...