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Invoking @workspace to query a codebase for where the tests are located
Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci
Aug 7, 2024

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...

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Augustin Popa
Augustin Popa
Aug 1, 2024

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 ...

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Sarthak Tamboli
Sarthak Tamboli
Jul 29, 2024

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...

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Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci
Jul 23, 2024

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 ...

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Erika Sweet
Erika Sweet
Jul 22, 2024

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 ...

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Augustin Popa
Augustin Popa
Jun 27, 2024

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 ...

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Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci
Jun 18, 2024

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 ...

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Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci
Jun 10, 2024

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 ...

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Cameron DaCamara Zachary Henkel
Cameron,
Zachary
Jun 5, 2024

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 ...

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