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In-Editor Documentation for CMake in Visual Studio

April 15, 2019 Apr 15, 2019 04/15/19
Erika Sweet
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 1 introduces in-editor documentation for CMake commands, variables, and properties. You can now leverage IntelliSense autocompletion and quick info tooltips when editing a CMakeLists.txt file, which will save you time spent outside of the IDE referencing documentation and make the process less ...

Introducing the New CMake Project Settings UI

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Erika Sweet
Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 introduces a new CMake Project Settings Editor to help you more easily configure your CMake projects in Visual Studio. The editor provides an alternative to modifying the CMakeSettings.json file directly and allows you to create and manage your CMake configurations. If you’re just getting started with CMake in...

Using multi-stage containers for C++ development

December 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 12/13/18
Marc Goodner
Updated January 10, 2020: Corrected link to article source that was broken by refactoring in the repo. Containers are a great tool for configuring reproducible build environments. It’s fairly easy to find Dockerfiles that provide various C++ environments. Unfortunately, it is hard to find guidance on how to use newer techniques like multi...

Linux C++ Workload improvements to the Project System, Linux Console Window, rsync and Attach to Process

March 13, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 03/13/18
Marc Goodner
点这里看中文版 In Visual Studio 2017 15.7 Preview 1 we have made a number of improvements to our support to the Linux C++ workload based on your feedback. You can learn more about our Linux C++ workload in Visual Studio here. MSBuild Project System improvements We added some new properties to Linux projects on the C/C++ General ...

Remote tasks in Visual Studio

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Marc Goodner
We have introduced a new capability to run remote tasks in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 2.  This capability allows you to run any command on a remote system that is defined in Visual Studio’s Connection Manager. Remote tasks also provide the capability to copy files to the remote system. This feature is added when you install the Linux ...

Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17
Marc Goodner
In Visual Studio 2017 15.4 you can now target Linux from your CMake projects. This enables you to work on your existing code base that uses CMake as your build solution without having to convert it to a VS project. If your code base is cross-platform you can target both Windows and Linux from within Visual Studio. This post will give an ...

Linux development with C++ in Visual Studio

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17
Erika Sweet
This post was updated on December 11, 2020 Visual Studio 2017 introduced the Linux Development with C++ workload. We generally recommend Visual Studio’s native support for CMake for all C++ Linux development. Visual Studio’s CMake support allows you to target multiple platforms (Windows, a remote Linux system, the Windows Subsystem for ...

Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL

February 22, 2017 Feb 22, 2017 02/22/17
Andrew Pardoe
点这里看中文版 Concepts promise to fundamentally change how we write templated C++ code. They're in a Technical Specification (TS) right now, but, like Coroutines, Modules, and Ranges, it's good to get a head start on learning these important features before they make it into the C++ Standard. You can already use Visual Studio 2017 for...

Targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio

February 8, 2017 Feb 8, 2017 02/8/17
Marc Goodner
Update Jan. 8, 2020: Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 and later has native support for WSL. This eliminates the need to establish an SSH connection and is the recommended workflow for building and debugging on WSL. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was first introduced at Build in 2016 and was delivered as an early beta in Windows 10 ...