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Slow builds are a consistent theme of feedback from C++ developers. We built GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows so you can leverage Copilot to optimize your project’s build times. This workflow will find optimizations that bring your build times down. At first, we only measured the impact of build optimizations on full clean builds. The post Faster C++ iterative builds with GitHub Copilot appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

Meet the speakers behind Pure Virtual C++ 2026. In the final part, Victor Ciura maps the real challenges and promising directions for C++/Rust interop. The post Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 3]: Modernizing C++ appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview The post MSVC Build Tools Preview updates – July 2026 appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

In large C++ codebases, your code understanding and navigation depend on quickly determining how symbols, declarations, definitions, and references are connected across your project. In Visual Studio Insiders 18.9, the new whole codebase indexing (WCI) enhances the existing browse database via a deeper, more comprehensive indexing approach. This preview feature allows Visual Studio to access The post Rethinking C++ Performance: Faster Code Navigation and GitHub Copilot Tools with Whole Codebase Indexing appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

Pure Virtual C++ 2026 streams Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT, a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community, live on YouTube (Microsoft Reactor) and Twitch, with on-demand recordings on the Visual Studio YouTube channel afterward. Register now → Welcome to part two of our Meet the Speakers series. In part one we looked at building and running The post Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 2]: The AI-Native C++ Developer Workflow appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

Meet the speakers behind Pure Virtual C++ 2026. In part one, Ryan Shepherd and David Li show how to build faster and smaller with C++20 modules and GitHub Copilot build performance. The post Pure Virtual C++ 2026 [Meet the Speakers, Part 1]: Build Faster, Run Faster appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

These June updates add a vcpkg-tool switch to skip installation when packages are already cached, OpenHarmony (OHOS) platform support, and major library updates including curl 8.21, CGAL 6.2, and Graphviz 15. The post What’s New in vcpkg (June 2026) appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

The featured talks for Pure Virtual C++ 2026 are here! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. The post Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Talks Announced appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

Pure Virtual C++ is back for its 7th year! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. The post Save the Date: Pure Virtual C++ 2026 appeared first on C++ Team Blog.

C++ developers can now bring IDE-style semantic intelligence into Copilot CLI with less setup. The C++ language server plugin supports richer code navigation, diagnostics, symbol understanding, and code changes by using the same build context your compiler does. That build context usually comes from a compile_commands.json file, which tells the language server how each source The post Streamline C++ Code Intelligence Setup in Copilot CLI appeared first on C++ Team Blog.