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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...

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 StudioGame DevelopmentGitHub Copilot
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Aug 29, 2023
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Learn about new and old VS tools on Visual Studio Toolbox!

Leslie Richardson
Leslie Richardson

Do you like watching videos to learn about new and existing Visual Studio features?  Then you should check out the Visual Studio Toolbox show!  Available on both Learn and YouTube, Visual Studio Toolbox is a show that helps you become a more productive developer in VS by highlighting tooling within the IDE and the wider Visual Studio family.  ...

.NETVisual StudioVisual Studio 2022
Aug 16, 2023
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Unleashing the Power of Visual Studio 2022 for C++ Game Development

David Li
David Li

In Visual Studio 2022 v17.7, we are excited to bring you a multitude of performance tune-ups, productivity enhancements, and Unreal Engine integrations for C++ game development. In this blog post, you will learn how to take advantage of these new improvements whether you use Unreal Engine or a proprietary game engine. Not a game developer? See ...

C++Game DevelopmentUnreal Engine
Mar 14, 2023
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available

Marian Luparu
Marian Luparu

Preview 2 for Visual Studio 17.6 is now available! If you are a game developer, a mobile developer, or are interested in learning new tricks to better debug your code, check out this latest release. It’s as easy as upgrading your Preview channel in the Visual Studio installer. And if you haven’t activated your Preview channel for Visual ...

.NETDebugging and DiagnosticsC++

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