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2 million downloads! This is very exciting for the Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension, considering it was just 4 months ago when we hit the 1 million milestone! Today we are shipping the July 2017 update to the extension. Besides several bug fixes, we are continuing to polish the new IntelliSense experience that we shipped last month. This new exp...

Today we are excited to announce the release of the June 2017 update of the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update enables semantic-aware member list auto-completion and improves the overall default IntelliSense behavior, providing a smoother out-of-box IntelliSense experience. If you haven't tried it before, download VS Code (Stable ...

We're excited to announce improved CMake and Ninja support in Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 2.  In this preview, we have updated CMake from version 3.7.2 to version 3.8 and added improved support for the CMake Ninja generator.  Additionally, this preview includes several fixes for community reported bugs. Please download the preview and try out the l...

Earlier this month, the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code hit another exciting milestone – it has been installed over 1.5 million times since it first shipped in March last year! Thanks to everyone who has sent us feedback to help us make it this far. We will continue to make improvements to the extension based on your feedback. Today we ar...

Earlier today we shipped the April 2017 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. We are excited to introduce the following new features in this update: The original blog post has been updated with these changes. If you have this extension installed already, Visual Studio Code sends a notification for the update and instal...

Here on the C++ product team at Microsoft, our mission is to make the lives of every C++ developer on the planet better. We try to do that via various avenues, including but not limited to, It is that last investment, Visual Studio, which I wanted to focus on in this blog post. Specifically, we’ll focus on the latest release, V...

This blog post was written by Sunny Chatterjee and Andrew Pardoe Visual Studio 2017 RTM  release includes the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers as part of Code Analysis tools for C/C++. We have gotten a ton of useful feedback on the early previews of these checks through our external customers. Thank you for engaging with us and giving us great feedbac...

This blog post was written by Sunny Chatterjee and Andrew Pardoe The C++ Core Guidelines focus on simple ways that you can improve the correctness and safety of your code. We introduced the C++ Core Guidelines Checkers to help automate enforcement of the C++ Core Guidelines in your code. One of the easiest and most important changes you can make ...

Visual Studio 2017 is a major leap forward in terms of C++ functionality compared with VS 2015. We hope the new release will delight you in your day-to-day job as soon as you can upgrade. This blog post focuses on the steps needed to upgrade from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017. As promised in our BUILD 2016 talk "6 reasons to move your C++ code to Vis...

Two important features in C++11 received small upgrades in C++14 that had far-reaching effects. You can see from the CppReference site that while both of these changes were small changes to the standard (search for the "C++14" annotation on those pages) they had broad impact on the compiler’s implementation and on what code developers can w...