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Deploy and debug apps on remote targets

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23
Marc Goodner
There are a number of ways that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code enable you to interact with remote machines. Both can enable you to connect to a remote machine and use it as a build machine and debug your applications there. Sometimes though your target is not the same as your build machine. For example, for embedded Linux devices you ...

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...

Debugging Linux CMake Projects with gdbserver

December 18, 2019 Dec 18, 2019 12/18/19
Erika Sweet
Update 2/20/20: We have addressed a bug which allows you to debug simple CMake projects using one level of CMakeLists.txt files with gdbserver in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 3. The example launch configuration has been updated below. Gdbserver is a program that allows you to remotely debug applications running on Linux. It ...

Using multi-stage containers for C++ development

December 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 12/13/18
Marc Goodner
Updated January 10, 2020: Corrected link to article source that was broken by refactoring in the repo. Containers are a great tool for configuring reproducible build environments. It’s fairly easy to find Dockerfiles that provide various C++ environments. Unfortunately, it is hard to find guidance on how to use newer techniques like multi...

C++ development with Docker containers in Visual Studio Code

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
Rong Lu
Containers allow developers to package up an application with all the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one image. This is especially useful for C++ cross-platform development – with containers you can choose to target a platform that runs on a completely different operating system than your ...

Using MSVC in a Docker Container for Your C++ Projects

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18
Marc Goodner
Containers encapsulate the runtime environment of an application: the file system, environment settings, and virtualized OS are bundled into a package. Docker containers have changed the way we think about build and test environments since they were introduced five years ago. Visual Studio’s setup and install expert, Heath Stewart, blogs ...