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GitHub Copilot Extensions for C++ developers and beyond now available in VS Code
GitHub Copilot is now more extensible than ever for extension authors in VS Code. At the Microsoft Build conference, we announced that VS Code extensions can...
What’s New in vcpkg (July 2024)
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.07.12 release, 2024-07-10 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg ...
MSVC Backend Updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10
Visual Studio 2022 17.10 brings new optimizations, intrinsics, features, and improvements to the MSVC backend. Check out the highlights below...
Genetec uses Visual Studio, CMake, vcpkg, and Docker for remote Linux C++ development
Over the past couple of months, the Microsoft C++ team reached out to a series of customers voting on a suggestion ticket asking for Remote Linux Unit Testing ...
Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in VS Code for C++ Developers
GitHub Copilot code completions are autocomplete-stye suggestions that appear inline as you code. Until today, they have used context from your active file and ...
What’s New in vcpkg (June 2024)
This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.06.15 release, 2024-06-10 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg ...
Understand your C++ symbols using Copilot in Visual Studio’s Quick Info
Navigating your codebase and forget what exactly that method does? Looking for quick, easy-to-digest information on your code at any point in your development ...
Bosch widely adopts Visual Studio 2022 after experiencing performance improvements for C++ Linux cross-compilation
Introduction The Bosch security camera team had been evaluating Visual Studio as a unified development setup for their team’s C++ development, which ...
Integrating C++ header units into Office using MSVC (3/n)
Overview Introduction In our previous two (part 1, part 2) blog posts we discussed how Office was thinking holistically about ...