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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 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 work on ...

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
Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3 introduces a new feature aimed at enhancing your productivity. We are thrilled to announce the release of #include cleanup, a tool that helps you maintain clean code. To start using this feature, make sure to update to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview.  #include cleanup   Visual Studio now ...

Build Insights Now Available in Visual Studio 2022

June 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023 06/15/23
Nelson Daniel Troncoso
Introduction We're excited to announce that Build Insights is now integrated with Visual Studio 2022! Available in Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2, Build Insights provides critical information of your development environment. Using the analysis created by Build Insights, you will now have the power to effectively optimize your build times, ...

Even faster builds with Incredibuild 10 and Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 3

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23
Michael Price
Note: This post was co-authored with Incredibuild's Director of Product Marketing, Yohai West. We are pleased to announce that Visual Studio version 17.6 Preview 3 includes Incredibuild's most advanced developer acceleration platform: Incredibuild 10. This release includes several notable, new features that empower teams to speed up the ...

Maximize Unreal Engine Development with the Latest Integrations in Visual Studio 2022

March 29, 2023 Mar 29, 2023 03/29/23
David Li
Introduction Since our announcement last month, the team has been working hard on building a new round of Unreal Engine integrations. Today, we are happy to show you the next set of features that can level up your game development productivity. In this article, you will learn about how to stream Unreal Logs, see Unreal Header Tool ...

Create C++ Member Function in Visual Studio

March 28, 2023 Mar 28, 2023 03/28/23
Mryam Girmay
We are excited to announce that Create C++ Member Function can now be used to quickly add constructor and equality operator (operator ==) in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2. When you have a class with fields, you can add a default constructor, constructor with all fields, equality operator, and equality operator with all fields easily. ...

Unreal Engine Integrations Now Available in Visual Studio 2022

February 16, 2023 Feb 16, 2023 02/16/23
David Li
Since the release of Visual Studio 2022, we have been focusing on building a cascade of productivity and performance improvements for game and large project developers. Today, we are happy to share the next set of features specifically aimed towards improving productivity for Unreal Engine development. We have heard and seen a tremendous ...

Minecraft’s WSL build time cut in half after working with Visual Studio C++ team

February 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 02/15/23
Sinem Akinci
The Minecraft Publishing team, within Mojang Studios, reached out to the Visual Studio C++ team because they needed to expand C++ development to a new platform (Linux) while respecting their existing technological base (MSBuild) and these constraints prevented them from pursuing more established cross-platform pipelines. When developing with ...

C++ Brace Pair Colorization and More in Visual Studio

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Mryam Girmay
Visual Studio 17.5 brings you several new improvements in the C++ editing experience. Now we are excited to announce that C++ Brace Pair Colorization, Spell Checker, All-In-One Search, Reimagined Member List, and Macro Expansion Improvements are released in the Visual Studio Preview.   These features are also part of our focus on ...