Visual Studio boosts C++ development

Visual Studio now delivers enhanced performance for conditional breakpoints in C++ through a reworked implementation. With Visual Studio v17.11, an initial assessment finds execution time is nearly four times as fast, reducing execution time from 80 seconds to 21 seconds over 80,000 iterations. For the core editor, developers now can narrow the scope of code searches with newly added scoping options.

Also with Visual Studio v17.11, Microsoft has added support for the CMake debugger in CMake projects that target Linux via Windows Subsystem for Linux or SSH. The CMake debugger allows debugging of CMake scripts and CMakeLists.txt files through the Visual Studio debugger.

Microsoft also said it has made it easier to view GitHub and Azure Devops pull request comments directly in a working file in Visual Studio. Developers now can stay in context, make code changes, and interact with colleagues’ suggestions without switching contexts in the browser.