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In large C++ codebases, your code understanding and navigation depend on quickly determining how symbols, declarations, definitions, and references are connected across your project. In Visual Studio Insiders 18.9, the new whole codebase indexing (WCI) enhances the existing browse database via a deeper, more comprehensive indexing approach. This...

Pure Virtual C++ 2026 streams Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT, a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community, live on YouTube (Microsoft Reactor) and Twitch, with on-demand recordings on the Visual Studio YouTube channel afterward. Register now → Welcome to part two of our Meet the Speakers series. In part one we looked...

Meet the speakers behind Pure Virtual C++ 2026. In part one, Ryan Shepherd and David Li show how to build faster and smaller with C++20 modules and GitHub Copilot build performance.

These June updates add a vcpkg-tool switch to skip installation when packages are already cached, OpenHarmony (OHOS) platform support, and major library updates including curl 8.21, CGAL 6.2, and Graphviz 15.

The featured talks for Pure Virtual C++ 2026 are here! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.

Pure Virtual C++ is back for its 7th year! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.

C++ developers can now bring IDE-style semantic intelligence into Copilot CLI with less setup. The C++ language server plugin supports richer code navigation, diagnostics, symbol understanding, and code changes by using the same build context your compiler does. That build context usually comes from a file, which tells the language server how e...

Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO Adobe and Microsoft worked together to improve Photoshop performance and responsiveness on Windows by combining MSVC’s peak-performance build settings with Sample-based Profile-Guided Optimization (SPGO). The collaboration focused on real customer scenarios where latency matters most, inclu...

GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview as of Visual Studio 2026, helping you upgrade your MSVC Build Tools with an AI-guided workflow.