What's New in Visual Studio for C++ Developers
Talkat CppCon 2024 · on Friday, 2024-09-20· at 13:30· Cottonwood 8/9, 6700 North Gaylord Rockies Boulevard·
summary
Visual Studio now bundles GitHub Copilot with inline chat, editor suggestions, repo-scoped content exclusion and a custom-instructions experiment; Copilot generates commit messages and PR descriptions and helps fix warnings. Build Insights opens ETL traces with include diagnostics, function and template views and a memory-layout tool that shows a StarSystem type shrinking from 440 to 428 bytes after applying pragma pack. Remote work adds WSL/SSH remote file explorer and remote test discovery, Unreal Engine 5.4 auto-sync, and MSVC ships C++23 STL pieces like mdspan and optional.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome to Visual Studio C++
- 1:51Visual Studio 2022 overview
- 3:13Productivity features
- 6:23GitHub Copilot demo
- 13:50Build Insights demo
- 26:09Unreal Engine features
- 30:02MSVC toolchain updates
- 36:39Cross-platform debugging
- 38:05Remote Linux debugging
- 49:55GitHub Copilot automation
- 55:36Closing remarks
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