C++ Team Blog

Welcome C++ developers to GitHub Codespaces! 

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

Nick Uhlenhuth

In May we announced Visual Studio Codespaces and its early support for C++ developers. Over the last several months we interviewed early adopters, and based on their feedback we continued to add new functionality and to improve the Codespaces experience. As part of these efforts, we are excited to announce that we’ve streamlined the ...

Happy 20th Birthday CMake!

September 16, 2020 Sep 16, 2020 09/16/20

Marian Luparu

CMake is now 20! Kitware posted yesterday an interview with Bill Hoffman, the original creator for CMake and shared that August 31 was CMake's 20th birthday Here, in the C++ team, we are not only heavy CMake users. We also believe that CMake is a foundational piece for all C++ cross-platform developers and, as such, we strive to enable the ...

Project OneFuzz: new open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale

September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20

Marian Luparu

We're excited to echo Microsoft Security team's announcement that Project OneFuzz is now available as an open-source project in GitHub. To learn more about the announcement, head over to our Microsoft Security blog to read "Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale". From ...

C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0!

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Julia Reid

We’re excited to announce the first generally available release of the C++ extension for Visual Studio Code! Visual Studio Code is a free code editor that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is highly-customizable to make it exactly what you want it to be. The C++ extension brings a rich set of productivity features to VS Code for C++ ...

Debug Linux core dumps in Visual Studio

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Erika Sweet

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 we added the ability to debug Linux core dumps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or a remote Linux system directly from Visual Studio. This support is specific to the “Native Only" debugger type for unmanaged C++ code.  We understand that some teams develop on Windows but deploy to both...

C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Elnar Dakeshov

Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. Update: Windows 10 SDK version 2104 has been released, which includes the changes needed for C11 and C17 as well as the conformant preprocessor. It can be downloaded here. To use this SDK, follow the instructions from step 3. Our team ...

vcpkg: Accelerate your team development environment with binary caching and manifests

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20

Augustin Popa

 This post was updated on September 21, 2020 to add more information on the GitHub Packages binary caching example.  Please see our Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 3 release notes for more of our latest features. September is the biggest month for us in the Microsoft C++ team as it’s CppCon month! Our team has many exciting ...