We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following the Update Visual Studio Learn page.
Very exciting. I’m all for improved indexing and search times, and integrating C++ build insights directly into the IDE is a smart move.
However, someone pointed out to me a new feature in the works on the preview branch, Size and Alignment hints, where hovering over a
structorclasswill reveal its size and alignment. I can’t be the only one thankful that I will soon no longer have toconstexpr auto x = sizeof(Foo);😀