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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 ...

Visual Studio 2022 Performance: Faster C++ Source Code Indexing

November 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022 11/15/22
Victor Ciura
Building on top of our performance wins in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3, we are excited to announce additional improvements in version 17.4.Whether you are a game developer, work with large codebases, or have solutions with many C++ projects, your development experience in Visual Studio 2022 17.4 will feel even faster.In 17.4 we ...

Address Sanitizer Now in “Early Release” for Xbox Developers

June 22, 2021 Jun 22, 2021 06/22/21
David Li
Address Sanitizer is now available on Xbox, developers can leverage this powerful technology to help debug memory issues in their titles.  Combined with the crash dump changes detailed here, it should provide all the flexibility required to support your automated tests suites and enable you to find issues quickly and easily.