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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 ...

MSVC ARM64 optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 

May 29, 2023 May 29, 2023 05/29/23
Jiong Wang (ARM Ltd)
In the last couple of months, the Microsoft C++ team has been working on improving MSVC ARM64 backend performance and we are excited to have a couple of optimizations available in the Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6. These optimizations improved code-generation for both scalar ISA and SIMD ISA (NEON). Let’s review some interesting ...

vcpkg is Now Included with Visual Studio

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Augustin Popa
As of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6, the vcpkg C/C++ package manager is included as an installable component for the C++ Desktop and C++ Gaming workloads. You can also find it in the installer by searching for vcpkg package manager under the Individual components tab. (image)   Using the Visual Studio Copy of vcpkg After you ...

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 for C++ Developers

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23
Sy Brand
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page. Cross-...

What’s New for Makefile Tools in VS Code Version 0.7.0 – Variable Expansion and more…

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23
Sinem Akinci
The Makefile Tools team in VS Code has shipped the latest 0.7.0 version of the extension. In this version, we have enabled variable expansion for your Makefile projects in settings, so you no longer need to write plain paths for your Makefiles in the settings.json for the extension and can instead utilize variables that the Makefile extension ...

Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23
Sy Brand
(image) Every year we run Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. Next month we’re doing it again! Sign-up for free to get access to our five live sessions and a host of pre-conference content. The live event will run June 6th 13:00-16:00 UTC. Videos will be available to stream for free on ...