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Oct 30, 2024
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Unreal Engine Toolbar in Visual Studio

Sy Brand
Sy Brand

In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11, we’ve added a new Unreal Engine toolbar to Visual Studio. The Unreal Engine toolbar is a new feature that provides quick access to common Unreal Engine tasks. You can find the toolbar at the top of your code window when you have an Unreal Engine project loaded. The toolbar includes the following actions: ...

Game DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Oct 29, 2024
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Create Unreal Engine modules faster

Sy Brand
Sy Brand

Unreal Engine modules help keep your code organized and modular. However, creating modules can be a tedious and error-prone process that involves manually editing configuration files and adding boilerplate code. Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11 comes with a new dialog to help with this process. With the new Add Module dialog, you can quickly add...

Game DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Oct 28, 2024
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Easily add Unreal Engine classes to your C++ project

Sy Brand
Sy Brand

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 introduces a new Add Unreal Engine Class dialog that lets you easily add common Unreal Engine classes to your project. You can also choose to which module to add your class, so you can keep your code organized and modular. To use this feature, you need to have an Unreal Engine project open in Visual Studio. Right cl...

Game DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Aug 28, 2024
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C++ Gaming Productivity Update for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11

David Li
David Li

Introduction In Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11, you will find brand new productivity enhancements for your game development workflows. From faster conditional breakpoints to a swath of Unreal Engine enhancements, we have added various productivity boosters based on your feedback. Once again, thank you for sharing Developer Community feedback and...

Visual Studio 2022Game DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Aug 21, 2024
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New C++ features in Visual Studio v17.11

Sy Brand
Sy Brand

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11 is here and comes with a host of new features for C++ developers. We’ve made improvements across our toolchain, Unreal Engine support, Build Insights, CMake debugger, and more. This post gives a quick overview of what’s available; for all the details, see What's New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.11 on ...

Visual Studio 2022C++
Mar 19, 2024
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Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot at GDC 2024

David Li
David Li

Join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for a special session on using Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot. In this session, you will learn how to leverage these tools to increase your productivity and modernize your game development workflow.

Visual StudioGitHub CopilotGame Development
Mar 7, 2024
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Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.9: A Comprehensive Update for C++ Developers

Mryam Girmay
Mryam Girmay

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 introduces a host of new features and improvements for C++ developers. Now, you can use the Memory Layout feature to visualize the memory layout of your classes, structs, and unions directly in the editor. Additionally, the #include Diagnostics feature provides insights into the frequency of element usage from an inc...

Visual StudioC++
Feb 26, 2024
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Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)

Jason Chlus
Jason Chlus

In 2023, we added many new features, fixes, and improvements to Visual Studio 2022 to make your coding experience more productive, enjoyable, and accessible. This blog post looks back at all the notable enhancements that shipped in 2023 for Visual Studio 2022. Here are the recaps for the year:  For m...

Feb 23, 2024
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A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

Jason Chlus David Li
Jason,
David

Game development is evolving rapidly and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. I’m thrilled that David Li took the time to highlight all the improvements added to Visual Studio for game developers during 2023. Check out his blog here.  The Unreal Engine integrations are where my eyes jumped to first. There is now an Unreal Engine log vie...

Game DevelopmentDeveloper ProductivityUnreal Engine
Nov 21, 2023
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.8 Brings Increased Productivity, Further Unreal Engine Integration, and Cross-Platform Enhancements to C++

Sinem Akinci
Sinem Akinci

Introducing the latest updates to Visual Studio 2022, designed to make your development experience more productive and efficient than ever before. Our Visual Studio 2022 17.8 release includes powerful C++ productivity features that empowers you to check the size and alignment of classes, make member functions const, and make global functions static...