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C11 Threads in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 2

September 26, 2023 Sep 26, 2023 09/26/23
Charlie Barto
Back in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Microsoft Visual C gained preliminary support for C11 atomics. We are happy to announce that support for the other major concurrency feature of C11, threads, is available in Visual Studio version 17.8 Preview 2. This should make it easier to port cross-platform C applications to Windows, without having ...

MSVC Machine-Independent Optimizations in Visual Studio 2022 17.7

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23
Troy Johnson
This blog post presents a selection of machine-independent optimizations that were added between Visual Studio versions 17.4 (released November 8, 2022) and 17.7 P3 (released July 11, 2023). Each optimization below shows assembly code for both X64 and ARM64 to show the machine-independent nature of the optimization. Optimizing Memory Across ...

Enhancing the CMake Targets View in Visual Studio

September 20, 2023 Sep 20, 2023 09/20/23
Sinem Akinci
The CMake Targets View in Visual Studio is a view that allows you to visualize your CMake project structure by the CMake targets and build specified target libraries and executables. To make this view more usable, we have implemented a few new improvements to make it easier than ever to navigate your CMake targets. This includes improved ...

What’s New for the Remote File Explorer in Visual Studio

September 18, 2023 Sep 18, 2023 09/18/23
Sinem Akinci
The Remote File Explorer gives you the capability to access your files and folders on your remote machines that you are connected to through the Connection Manager in Visual Studio, without having to leave the IDE. Since we last spoke, the team has implemented new features to further enhance your remote file workflows by listening to your ...

Make Member Function const and Global Function Static in Visual Studio

September 14, 2023 Sep 14, 2023 09/14/23
Mryam Girmay
We are delighted to announce that Visual Studio Preview now includes the "Make Member Function Const" and "Make Global Function Static" features. To check out these features, make sure you update to the latest version of Visual Studio Preview.  Make Member Function Const Visual Studio now generates hints to mark member functions as ...

MSVC Address Sanitizer – One DLL for all Runtime Configurations

August 10, 2023 Aug 10, 2023 08/10/23
Amy Wishnousky
With Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview 3, we have refactored the MSVC Address Sanitizer (ASan) to depend on one runtime DLL regardless of the runtime configuration. This simplifies project onboarding and supports more scenarios, particularly for projects statically linked (/MT, /MTd) to the C Runtimes. However, static configurations have...

Introducing CMake Debugger in VS Code: Debug your CMake Scripts using Open-Source CMake Debugger

August 9, 2023 Aug 9, 2023 08/9/23
Sinem Akinci
The new CMake Debugger that was introduced in Visual Studio is now available in VS Code. Now, you can debug your CMakeLists.txt scripts from VS Code using the CMake Tools Extension. To see the full release notes for this release and what else is included, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. Background The Visual C++ team ...

What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.7

August 8, 2023 Aug 8, 2023 08/8/23
Sy Brand
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 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. Core Editor ...

vcpkg 2023.06.20 and 2023.07.21 Releases: GitHub Dependency Graph Support, Android Tested Triplets, Xbox Triplet Improvements, and More…

July 31, 2023 Jul 31, 2023 07/31/23
Augustin Popa
The 2023.07.21 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from April 16th, 2023 to July 21th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period: 59 new ports were added to the open-source registry. If you are unfamiliar with ...