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July 2022 - C++ Team Blog

MSBuild Low Priority Builds in Visual Studio

July 27, 2022 Jul 27, 2022 07/27/22
Felix Huang
The C++ team is happy to announce the completion of a highly upvoted C++ feedback ticket from Developer Community – Low Priority Builds. With your feedback and collaboration from our partner teams, you can now start Low Priority Builds within Visual Studio. This will ensure the MSBuild node spawns with a lower priority, affecting all ...

vcpkg July 2022 Release is Now Available: Shared Libraries on Linux, Improved vcpkg new, Optional name and version Fields, and More…

July 25, 2022 Jul 25, 2022 07/25/22
Augustin Popa
The July 2022 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from June 16th, 2022 to July 24th, 2022 for the microsoft/vcpkg and microsoft/vcpkg-tool GitHub repos. Some stats for this period:   Notable Changes Better support for shared libraries on Linux This update ...