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November 2019 - C++ Team Blog

CMake Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19
Erika Sweet
Microsoft is now the primary maintainer of the CMake Tools extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension was created and previously maintained by vector-of-bool, who has moved on to other things. Thank you vector-of-bool for all of your hard work getting this extension to where it is today! About the extension The CMake Tools extension ...

Set Environment Variables for Debug, Launch, and Tools with CMake and Open Folder

November 18, 2019 Nov 18, 2019 11/18/19
Will Buik
There are many reasons why you may want to customize environment variables. Many build systems use environment variables to drive behavior; debug targets sometimes need to have PATH customized to ensure their dependencies are found; etc. Visual Studio has a mechanism to customize environment variables for debugging and building CMake projects ...

Electronic Arts and Visual Studio’s Linux Support

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19
Erika Sweet
Electronic Arts (EA) is using Visual Studio’s cross-platform support to cross-compile on Windows and debug on Linux. The following post is written by Ben May, a Senior Software Engineer of Engineering Workflows at EA. Thanks Ben and EA for your partnership, and for helping us make Visual Studio the best IDE for C++ cross-platform development...

Introducing C++ Build Insights

November 5, 2019 Nov 5, 2019 11/5/19
Kevin Cadieux
C++ builds should always be faster. In Visual Studio 2019 16.2, we’ve shown our commitment to this ideal by speeding up the linker significantly. Today, we are thrilled to announce a new collection of tools that will give you the power to make improvements of your own. If you've ever had time for breakfast while building C++, then you may ...

An Update on C++/CLI and .NET Core

November 1, 2019 Nov 1, 2019 11/1/19
Will Buik
The first public release of our C++/CLI support for .NET Core 3.1 is now available for public preview! It is included in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.4 Preview 2. We would love it if you could try it out and send us any feedback you have. For more info about what this is and the roadmap going forward, check out my last post on the future of C...