The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC development team. This post covers updates from the past month, currently targeting the v14.52 release. This encompasses changes across the compiler frontend, backend, linker, standard library, and related tools. Although you can acquire the MSVC Bui...

Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview

Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview

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...

Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview

Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview

Try out the final preview of MSVC Build Tools v14.51

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