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April 2024 - C++ Team Blog

Pure Virtual C++ 2024 is Tomorrow

April 29, 2024 Apr 29, 2024 04/29/24
Sy Brand
(image) Pure Virtual C++ is our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it will run on April 30th 15:00 UTC. Sign-up for free to get access to our five sessions on the day. The sessions are: We've added a host of new pre-conference content which you can check out in the meantime...

Usability Improvements in the Visual Studio Connection Manager

April 26, 2024 Apr 26, 2024 04/26/24
Sneha Ramachandran
In Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 2, we’ve introduced some UX updates and usability improvements to the Connection Manager. With these updates we provide a more seamless experience when connecting to remote systems and/or debugging failed connections. Please install the latest Preview to try it out. Read on to learn what the Connection ...

Visual Studio features for C++ Header Files and Modules

April 25, 2024 Apr 25, 2024 04/25/24
Mryam Girmay
In the field of C++ programming, the management of header files and modules can often seem challenging. However, there are numerous tools and features available that can simplify this process, enhancing efficiency and reducing the likelihood of errors. Here’s a walkthrough for several tools that we provide for C++ headers and modules. Run ...

VS Code C++ Extension 1.19 Release: 3.6x faster Go To Symbol & 1.5x faster colorization

April 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 04/18/24
Alexandra Kemper
With our recent 1.19 release, performance was our biggest focus for the C++ Extension in Visual Studio Code. This included features like progressive population of IntelliSense results and faster symbol searching. With these enhancements, you can begin writing C++ code when opening a file quicker than ever before. Additionally, we also added ...

MSVC Address Sanitizer adoption in .NET’s CoreCLR

April 12, 2024 Apr 12, 2024 04/12/24
Zachary Johnson
Collaboration to improve the reliability and security of .NET, from the perspective of an MSVC Address Sanitizer Developer Introduction .NET (on GitHub) is a cross-platform, open-source, and general-purpose development platform with widespread adoption. A core component of .NET is the Core Common Language Runtime (CoreCLR), which provides ...

Time Travel Debugging team uses Copilot Chat for C++

April 10, 2024 Apr 10, 2024 04/10/24
Sinem Akinci
Ken Sykes and Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (JCAB) are both Principal Software Engineers who work on the Time Travel Debugging team at Microsoft, which is the team that maintains and develops the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) and related technologies. Their codebase is developed with C++ and CMake, and they primarily use Visual Studio Code for ...