Marc Goodner

Program Manager, C++

I am a Program Manager on the C++ team at Microsoft working on developer experiences for Azure Sphere, embedded, IoT, and Linux in Visual Studio.

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Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake

August 25th, 2017
In Visual Studio 2017 15.4 you can now target Linux from your CMake projects. This enables you to work on your existing code base that uses CMake as your build solution without having to convert it to a VS project. If your code base is cross-platform you can target both Windows and Linux from within Visual Studio. This post will give an ...

Linux C++ improvements for cross-platform code sharing and type visualization

May 10th, 2017
In Visual Studio 2017 we introduced the Linux development with C++ workload. This tutorial is going to walk through some of the improvements we have made in the 15.2 release using the classic spinning cube demo from Julien Guertault’s OpenGL tutorial. We have shown how to use this OpenGL demo in our Linux workload before. What we are showing...

Targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio

February 8th, 2017
Update Jan. 8, 2020: Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 and later has native support for WSL. This eliminates the need to establish an SSH connection and is the recommended workflow for building and debugging on WSL. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first introduced at Build in 2016 and was delivered as an early beta in Windows 10 ...

Visual C++ for Linux 1.0.5 Updates

September 13th, 2016
The Visual C++ for Linux announcement post has been updated with the content below. If you are already familiar with this extension this post covers what is new since our last update. We recently posted new bits for our 1.0.5 release of the Visual C++ for Linux extension for Visual Studio 2015. This release has some major performance ...

Visual C++ for Linux Updates

June 7th, 2016
Updated 6/14/2016: We updated the original announcement post with the content below if you want a single page that covers everything about this extension. The below remains the same and just covers the updates from the original release. We’re happy to provide an update on the VC++ for Linux extension which has a new release today. Go get ...

Announcing the VS GDB Debugger extension

November 18th, 2015
Earlier this year I wrote a post on how you could debug C++ code on Linux from Visual Studio. It was a bit cumbersome, but it was doable. Today we are releasing the Visual Studio GDB Debugger extension preview. This will enable debugging remote Linux targets including IoT devices. To use this extension, you need to have Visual ...

Debug C++ code on Linux from Visual Studio

April 29th, 2015
As you may have heard, Visual Studio 2015 introduces GDB support for Android development. The interesting thing about the capability is that because it debugs using GDB, it’s possible to adapt the implementation to debug other targets that support GDB debugging as well (e.g. Linux and Raspberry Pi). In this post I will share the steps I ...