Latest & Greatest in Visual Studio 2019 for C++ developers
summary
Visual Studio 2019 shows concrete upgrades: CMake native experience loads folders, lists CMake targets and configures builds; vcpkg integrate install pulls libraries into both Windows and WSL builds and Azure Pipelines caches vcpkg to shave ~17 minutes off CI runs. Editor adds background code analysis with fix‑its, template sample instantiation for better IntelliSense and ML suggestions via IntelliCode. Remote Linux via SSH and WSL debugging works, clang/Clangd support arrives, STL is open source, linking is 2–6× faster and Intellisense is ~30% snappier.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:59Mission of Microsoft
- 2:05Agenda
- 2:40Developer Inner Loop
- 4:13Demo
- 7:54Code Browser
- 10:32Test Explorer
- 17:42Template Intelligence
- 20:42Code Debugging
- 22:52Testing
- 24:52Visual Studio Integration
- 36:42Client ID
- 39:12Start builds
- 42:44Summary
- 44:43Client ID integration
- 47:57More productivity features
- 48:16Live Share
- 49:21Conclusion
- 49:53C Compiler
- 53:12Link Improvements
- 53:49Runtime Performance
- 54:26Code Analysis
- 54:54Static Analysis
- 55:33Cloud Environment Demo
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