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What’s New in CMake for VS Code

June 15, 2022 Jun 15, 2022 06/15/22
Sinem Akinci
The latest version of CMake tools is now available for download in the VS Code Marketplace or using the .vsix file. We have been working hard on improving the CMake experience and are excited to share some new features and improvements for users starting in version 1.11.  ‘CMake’ task provider updates  We have added more options to the...

Visual Studio for remote macOS C++ development

March 16, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 03/16/22
Sinem Akinci
The latest preview version of Visual Studio is now available to download. In this latest release, users wishing to develop cross platform C++ applications for macOS can now make use of Visual Studio’s Linux tools with CMake to target the Mac. There is some setup required on the Mac side to enable the support, but then the Mac is treated just...

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21
Erika Sweet
Visual Studio 2022 introduces a native WSL 2 toolset for C++ development. This toolset is available now in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2. WSL 2 is the new, recommended version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture that provides better Linux file system performance, GUI support, and full system call compatibility. ...

Preview of using CMake Presets for Azure Sphere development

May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021 05/27/21
Marc Goodner
We are happy to announce that CMake Presets preview support is available in the Visual Studio 16.10 release as well as CMake Tools version 1.7 for Visual Studio Code. Erika introduced CMake Presets and why you should use them, this post will focus on how they can be used for Azure Sphere development across Visual Studio, VS Code, and GitHub...

Remote Debug Support in Visual Studio 2019

February 26, 2021 Feb 26, 2021 02/26/21
Lisbeth Cardoso Guerra
Visual Studio 2019 offers remote debug support for MSBuild and CMake projects targeting Windows and Linux. Thanks to remote debugging, our customers can target a wider, more diverse range of scenarios. We offer the flexibility to customize your deployment and automatically copy any dependencies needed to the target machine.

Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio

January 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 01/21/21
Erika Sweet
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 we added support for deploying CMake projects to a remote Windows machine and debugging them with the Visual Studio remote tools. CMake developers targeting ARM64 Windows can now cross-compile (with cl or clang-cl), deploy, and debug their projects directly from Visual Studio. You can download and ...

C++ with Visual Studio and WSL2

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Erika Sweet
Our team released native support for C++ with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Visual Studio in 2019. “Native support” means that all commands are executed locally instead of over a SSH connection. Since then, WSL2 has been announced and we’ve received questions about our support for WSL2 in Visual Studio. The purpose of this ...