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December 2021 - C++ Team Blog

Visual Studio Code C++ December 2021 Update: clang-tidy

December 14, 2021 Dec 14, 2021 12/14/21
Julia Reid
The latest insiders release of the C++ extension is here, bringing clang-tidy support to VS Code! Clang-tidy is a clang-based C++ linter tool that detects common errors in your code, like style violations and bugs that can be deduced via static analysis. Clang-tidy integration was one of our top asks on GitHub, so we’re excited to announce ...

Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio

December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21
Marc Goodner
In this post we will walk you through Visual Studio installation of the embedded workload, how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg, then demonstrate edit, build, deploy, and debugging directly in Visual Studio with new peripheral register and RTOS object views. We will demonstrate all of this with an Azure RTOS ThreadX project.

Bootstrap your dev environment with vcpkg artifacts

December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21
Marc Goodner
Updated May 11, 2022: Using your own registry section revised to reflect metadata format changes. We are happy to announce a new experience for acquiring artifacts using vcpkg. We define an artifact as a set of packages required for a working development environment. Examples of relevant packages include compilers, linkers, debuggers, build...