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On July 1, 2026, GitHub announced that Microsoft’s C++ Language Server is available as a Copilot CLI marketplace plugin, adding a built-in setup skill that can generate and refresh the compile_commands.json file needed for accurate C++ code intelligence. That sounds like a small tooling update...

Welcome to the 2nd post of our Xaml Islands deep dive adventure! On the first blog post, we talked a little bit about the history of this amazing feature, how the Xaml Islands infrastructure works and how to use it, and also a little bit of how you can leverage binding in your Island controls...

For the past few months we've been highlighting projects and examples that extend Visual Studio in one way or another. Well today's post is the "Mother of all Visual Studio Extensibility Post." Why? When the examples come from the Visual Studio Product Team itself, that's hard to beat... :)...

I have received a couple questions about "How do you build C++ projects in Windows without installing Visual Studio?". This video demonstrates the process but to explain it in a couple short steps: Link Removed* Open the Windows SDK command prompt** Browse to your project folder run "vcupdate...