November 2022

MSVC OpenMP Update

November 29, 2022 Nov 29, 2022 11/29/22

Tanveer Gani

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A Tour of 4 MSVC Backend Improvements

November 28, 2022 Nov 28, 2022 11/28/22

Sy Brand, Eric Brumer

This blog post presents some of the optimizations the backend team has implemented for Visual Studio 2022.

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...

Microsoft Office team uses Remote MacOS Debugging Capability in Visual Studio

November 1, 2022 Nov 1, 2022 11/1/22

Sinem Akinci

The Microsoft Office team approached the C++ team after seeing the Visual Studio announcement for support for debugging applications running on C++ from Windows through the Blizzard blog post. They had a need for a similar workflow, but for Macs instead of Linux. The C++ team worked closely with the Office engineers to adapt the same ...

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