C++ tutorials, C and C++ news, and information about Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Vcpkg from the Microsoft C++ team.
July 25, 2018Jul 25, 201807/25/18Last week we shipped the July 2018 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. In this update we added support for a new experimental API that allows build system extensions to pass IntelliSense configuration information to our extension for powering up full IntelliSense experience.
July 25, 2018Jul 25, 201807/25/18New to Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8, you can now set data breakpoints from within the Locals, Autos, Watch, and Quickwatch windows! To view official documentation on data breakpoints, check out this post.
Data breakpoints allow you to stop execution when a particular variable stored at a specific memory address changes.
July 6, 2018Jul 6, 201807/6/18Why re-write the preprocessor?
Recently, we published a blog post on C++ conformance completion. As mentioned in the blog post, the preprocessor in MSVC is currently getting an overhaul. We are doing this to improve its language conformance, address some of the longstanding bugs that were difficult to fix due to its design and improve its usability and diagnostics.
July 5, 2018Jul 5, 201807/5/18This post was written by Olga Arkhipova and Xiang Fan
Oftentimes, multiple projects in a Visual Studio solution use the same (or very similar) precompiled headers. As pch files are often big and building them takes a significant amount of time,
July 2, 2018Jul 2, 201807/2/18This post was written by Olga Arkhipova.
Many big codebases use so-called unity (jumbo) builds where many source files are included in one or a few ‘unity’ files for compilation, which makes compiling and linking much faster.
Just to avoid any confusion – this blog is NOT related to the Unity game engine.
