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Partnering with The Coalition to Bring Unreal Engine Find All Blueprint References to Visual Studio 2022

July 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023 07/20/23
David Li
Introduction (image) We are thrilled to bring you the 3rd batch of exciting Unreal Engine integrations in Visual Studio 2022! Since our initial announcements, our team has been hard at work building additional integrations based on your invaluable feedback. Recently, we have been working closely with our partners at The Coalition. Their ...

Visualize Macro Expansion for C++

July 13, 2023 Jul 13, 2023 07/13/23
Mryam Girmay
We are excited to announce the availability of Visualize Macro Expansion in Visual Studio 17.7 Preview. This feature lets you visualize the step-by-step expansion of macros. To begin utilizing this feature, ensure that you update to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview. Visualize Macro Expansion Visual Studio has introduced an ...

#include cleanup in Visual Studio

July 11, 2023 Jul 11, 2023 07/11/23
Mryam Girmay
We are thrilled to announce the return of #include cleanup, a tool that helps you maintain clean code, now available in Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 1. To start using this feature, make sure to update to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview.  #include cleanup   Visual Studio now offers #include cleanup, a feature that ...

AddressSanitizer continue_on_error

June 29, 2023 Jun 29, 2023 06/29/23
Jim Radigan
Visual Studio 17.6 comes with new functionality in the Address Sanitizer runtime which provides a new “checked build” for C and C++. This new runtime mode diagnoses and reports hidden memory safety errors, with zero false positives, as your app runs. Introduction C++ memory safety errors are a top concern for the industry. In Visual ...

C++ Extension in VS Code 1.16 Release: Call Hierarchy & more

June 28, 2023 Jun 28, 2023 06/28/23
Alexandra Kemper
The 1.16 version of the C++ Extension in VS Code has now been shipped. With this version of the extension, we are releasing one of our most upvoted GitHub feature requests – Call Hierarchy. We also added new functionality when creating declarations and definitions that allows you to copy the declaration/definition and specify its placement ...

Pure Virtual C++ Videos Available

June 14, 2023 Jun 14, 2023 06/14/23
Sy Brand
All of the videos from our Pure Virtual C++ conference are now available! You can find them all on YouTube. Overall we had 18 videos on a wide variety of C++ topics, from Rust/C++ interoperability, to value semantics, to improving compiler errors. Here are the videos for our five live sessions which ran on the day of the conference...

Automatically Install Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio using New Seamless Integration

June 14, 2023 Jun 14, 2023 06/14/23
Sinem Akinci
Have you ever wanted to try using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to target Linux from your C++ project, but haven’t gone through the documentation or CLI installation process? Now, from Visual Studio with the Linux and Embedded Workload, Visual Studio makes it easier than ever to get to that one-click install of WSL. Download the latest ...

Improved Doxygen Overload Resolution

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23
Mryam Girmay
We are excited to announce an enhanced Doxygen Comment Support for C++ in Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 2. To start using this feature, ensure to update to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview.   Improved Doxygen overload resolution  Doxygen comment support has been enhanced to improve the visibility and consistency of shared ...