Showing results for October 2024 - C++ Team Blog

Oct 17, 2024
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Enhanced Breakpoint Expressions for C++ Debugging in Visual Studio

Mryam Girmay
Mryam Girmay

Conditional Breakpoints Performance Improvement Debugging C++ code can be a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with complex scenarios. As a developer, it's frustrating to go through extensive setup and wait for a specific conditional breakpoint to trigger so you can analyze your application in a specific state. In Visual Studio 2022 v...

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Oct 10, 2024
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New Contextual Tools for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

Mryam Girmay
Mryam Girmay

Visual Studio 2022 17.11 now allows you to pass your entire workspace or specific classes and functions as context for GitHub Copilot Chat. By referencing your entire codebase, down to specific classes and functions, Copilot Chat can deliver refined and accurate results tailored to your code. @workspace for project references  You can now use...

C++
Oct 9, 2024
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What’s New in vcpkg (September 2024)

Augustin Popa
Augustin Popa

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.09.23 and 2024.09.30 releases, 2024-09-18 and 2024-09-30 tool releases, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout September. This month’s release includes some minor changes and bug fixes, 18 new ports, and 319 updates to existing ports. When updating v...

C++Vcpkg
Oct 7, 2024
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Configure GitHub Copilot Access via Content Exclusion

Alexandra Kemper
Alexandra Kemper

Have you ever wanted greater control over the sensitive content AI-powered tools can access in your repositories? You can now customize Copilot’s access to your files with the newly announced GitHub Copilot Content Exclusion in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Through this new process you can configure Copilot to ignore certain files in y...

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Oct 2, 2024
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Latest enhancements to Copilot workflows in Visual Studio: Move seamlessly from Copilot in Quick Info and more…

Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci

There have been new integrations added to Copilot workflows in Visual Studio to make it even more seamless to navigate between in-editor activities and the Chat window that has context of global workspace, conversational history, and more to get the most out of Copilot, wherever you are. With the latest updates, you can streamline your workflow ...

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