C++ Team Blog

MSVC ARM64 optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 

May 29, 2023 May 29, 2023 05/29/23

Jiong Wang (ARM Ltd)

In the last couple of months, the Microsoft C++ team has been working on improving MSVC ARM64 backend performance and we are excited to have a couple of optimizations available in the Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6. These optimizations improved code-generation for both scalar ISA and SIMD ISA (NEON). Let’s review some interesting ...

Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Pre-Conference Videos

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

Sy Brand

(image) Pure Virtual C++ is our free, annual, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it is running June 6th and you can find the session list and sign-up for free on the event page. In the run up to the conference we will be publishing new C++ videos every day. You can find the playlist on YouTube. The ...

vcpkg is Now Included with Visual Studio

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23

Augustin Popa

As of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6, the vcpkg C/C++ package manager is included as an installable component for the C++ Desktop and C++ Gaming workloads. You can also find it in the installer by searching for vcpkg package manager under the Individual components tab. (image)   Using the Visual Studio Copy of vcpkg After you ...

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 for C++ Developers

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Sy Brand

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page. Cross-...

C++20 Support Comes To C++/CLI

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Tanveer Gani

Details of C++20 support for C++/CLI introduced in VS 2022 17.6

What’s New for Makefile Tools in VS Code Version 0.7.0 – Variable Expansion and more…

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23

Sinem Akinci

The Makefile Tools team in VS Code has shipped the latest 0.7.0 version of the extension. In this version, we have enabled variable expansion for your Makefile projects in settings, so you no longer need to write plain paths for your Makefiles in the settings.json for the extension and can instead utilize variables that the Makefile extension ...

Sign Up for the free Pure Virtual C++ 2023 Conference

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23

Sy Brand

(image) Every year we run Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. Next month we’re doing it again! Sign-up for free to get access to our five live sessions and a host of pre-conference content. The live event will run June 6th 13:00-16:00 UTC. Videos will be available to stream for free on ...

What’s New for CMake Tools 1.14 in VS Code – Test Explorer

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Sinem Akinci

The team has been working hard to provide new highly requested capabilities for CMake users. Now, in version 1.14, we have provided a new Test Explorer for using CTest with your CMake projects. This release also features open-source community contributions from users. Thanks for your contributions! Test Explorer One of our most highly-...

Documentation for C++20 Ranges

April 26, 2023 Apr 26, 2023 04/26/23

Sy Brand, Tyler Whitney

C++20 introduced Ranges to the standard library: a new way of expressing composable transformations on collections of data. This feature adds a huge amount of expressive power and flexibility to C++. As with many concepts in C++, that power comes with new concepts to learn, and some complexity which can be difficult to navigate. One way of ...

Fill in the ISO C++ Developer Survey

April 24, 2023 Apr 24, 2023 04/24/23

Sy Brand

The ISO C++ developer survey runs every year and is a great help to us in prioritizing work based on what the community cares about. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete and closes tomorrow, so please take the time to fill it out.  ...