{"id":24088,"date":"2019-04-15T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/?p=24088"},"modified":"2019-04-15T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:42:55","slug":"in-editor-documentation-for-cmake-in-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/in-editor-documentation-for-cmake-in-visual-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Editor Documentation for CMake in Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 1\u00a0introduces in-editor documentation for CMake commands<\/a>,\u00a0variables<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>properties<\/span><\/span><\/a>. You can now leverage IntelliSense autocompletion\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>quick info tooltips\u00a0<\/span><\/span>when editing a CMakeLists.txt file, which will save you time spent outside of the IDE referencing documentation and make the process less error-prone. If you are just getting started with our native support for CMake, head over to our\u00a0<\/span><\/span>CMake Support in Visual Studio<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>introductory page<\/span><\/span>. You can use CMake to target multiple platforms<\/a> from the comfort of a single IDE.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Quick info<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Visual Studio now provides tooltips for CMake commands, variables, and properties based on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>official CMake documentation<\/span><\/span><\/a>. The tooltip appears when hovering over a command, variable, or property name and includes the definition (with optional arguments) and a quick description. Below is the quick info seen when hovering over the\u00a0add_subdirectory<\/span><\/code>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>project command.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quick<\/p>\n

IntelliSense completion\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Visual Studio<\/span><\/span>\u00a02019 version\u00a0<\/span><\/span>16.1 also improves completion behavior in CMakeLists.txt and provides suggestions for documented CMake commands, variables, and properties. Below are the completion suggestions and tooltips provided when setting the CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD using the set<\/span><\/code>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>command and CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD<\/span><\/code>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>variable.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Completion<\/p>\n

Give us your feedback!<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Thank you for taking the time to provide the feedback that we use to shape Visual Studio 2019 into the best developer environment f<\/span><\/span>or you. We\u2019d love for you to download\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and give it a try. We can be reached via the comments below or via email (<\/span><\/span>visualcpp@microsoft.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span>. If you encounter other problems with Visual Studio or MSVC or have a suggestion, you can use the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Report a Problem<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0tool in Visual Studio or head over to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Visual Studio Developer Community<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. You can also find us on Twitter (<\/span><\/span>@VisualC<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 1\u00a0introduces in-editor documentation for CMake commands,\u00a0variables, and\u00a0properties. You can now leverage IntelliSense autocompletion\u00a0and\u00a0quick info tooltips\u00a0when editing a CMakeLists.txt file, which will save you time spent outside of the IDE referencing documentation and make the process less error-prone. If you are just getting started with our native support for CMake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2953,"featured_media":24089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,266,279,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-cmake","category-linux","category-new-feature"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 1\u00a0introduces in-editor documentation for CMake commands,\u00a0variables, and\u00a0properties. You can now leverage IntelliSense autocompletion\u00a0and\u00a0quick info tooltips\u00a0when editing a CMakeLists.txt file, which will save you time spent outside of the IDE referencing documentation and make the process less error-prone. If you are just getting started with our native support for CMake, […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}