The September 2020 1.0 release of the C++ extension enabled building and debugging on Linux Arm and Arm64 machines through remote-SSH, allowing users to pick their own compiler and debugger.

In other words, instead of using hard-coding system defines based on a host OS, the tool now uses the system defines returned by the compiler, Microsoft explained, providing the example that the ...

Unlike code completion, NES suggests changes anywhere in the file where developers are most likely to need them. The release notes for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 provide information on all ...

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Herb Sutter and Miguel de Icaza have recently weighed in on the tradeoffs made by C++ and the managed code from .NET or Java. Does increasing programmer productivity require a reduction in the perfor ...

Microsoft's C++ dev team announced that an Embedded Tools extension introduced to Visual Studio 2022 last year is now available for Visual Studio Code as a preview. The Embedded Tools extension now ...