Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

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With Microsoft’s newfound love of open source code, the company has announced today that it’s open-sourcing Visual Studio’s build tool for the first time. MSBuild is a build engine used for compiling ...

This release helps developers get from idea to shipping code faster, limiting interruptions and endless context switching.

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 brings improvements in formatted output, vectorization, and diagnostics, CMake debugger support, and nearly 4x faster conditional breakpoints for C++. Microsoft has rolled ...

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Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process. Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual ...

Microsoft recently released the third preview build of Visual Studio 17.5 and one of the notable additions was a spell checker, which has been enabled for C#, C++, and Markdown files. Out of the box, ...