C++ Team Blog

Use AI-Powered Rename Suggestions to rename your C++ variables in Visual Studio

May 13, 2024 May 13, 2024 05/13/24

Sinem Akinci

We are very excited to announce C++ support for AI-Powered Rename Suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022. Seamlessly integrated into your familiar Rename workflow in the IDE, AI-powered rename suggestions dynamically generate name suggestions for any C++ identifier. It will generate proposed names based on its usage and your ...

Time Travel Debugging team uses Copilot Chat for C++

April 10, 2024 Apr 10, 2024 04/10/24

Sinem Akinci

Ken Sykes and Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (JCAB) are both Principal Software Engineers who work on the Time Travel Debugging team at Microsoft, which is the team that maintains and develops the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) and related technologies. Their codebase is developed with C++ and CMake, and they primarily use Visual Studio Code for ...

How Copilot is being used by the Time Travel Debugging team for repetitive C++ coding

April 3, 2024 Apr 3, 2024 04/3/24

Sinem Akinci

Background  Ken Sykes and Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza (JCAB) are both Principal Software Engineers who work on Time Travel Debugging at Microsoft. They are part of the team that maintains and develops the Windows Debugger (WinDbg) and related technologies. Their codebase is developed with C++ and CMake and they primarily use VS Code for day-to...

Quick Tips for using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24

Sinem Akinci

GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code when you have an active subscription to the service. Copilot Chat is your AI pair-programmer that allows you to speak in plain text through the chat interface to accomplish programming tasks such as understanding sections of code, generating test cases, and ...