This preview release of the extension adds language support for C/C++ to Visual Studio Code including:
- Language service
- Code Formatting (clang-format)
- Auto-Completion
- Symbol Searching
- Go to Definition/Declaration
- Peek Definition/Declaration
- Class/Method Navigation
- Signature Help
- Quick Info (Hover)
- Error Squiggles
- Debugging
- Support for debugging Windows (PDB, MinGW/Cygwin), Linux and macOS applications
- Line by line code stepping
- Breakpoints (including conditional and function breakpoints)
- Variable inspection
- Multi-threaded debugging support
- Core dump debugging support
- Executing GDB or MI commands directly when using 'C++ (GDB/LLDB)' debugging environment
- For help configuring the debugger see Configuring launch.json for C/C++ debugging on our GitHub page.
You can find more detailed information about C/C++ support for Visual Studio Code at our GitHub page and our VS Code documentation page.
If you run into any issues or have suggestions for us, please file issues and suggestions on GitHub. If you haven’t already provided us feedback, please take this quick survey to help shape this extension for your needs.