{"id":2212,"date":"2025-11-15T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:06:21","slug":"visual-studio-2026-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/visual-studio-2026-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2026 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.0)<\/strong> is now generally available! It includes a lot of new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements across the board. Here is a selection of what\u2019s new for C++ developers, including new features and improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A refreshed IDE UI<\/li>\n<li>Support for Visual Studio 2022 extensions out of the box<\/li>\n<li>Seamless upgrade experience from an older version of Visual Studio<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools v14.50: Greater C++23 conformance and runtime performance improvements<\/li>\n<li>AddressSanitizer support for ARM64 targets (Preview)<\/li>\n<li>IDE productivity improvements:\n<ul>\n<li>New keyboard shortcuts<\/li>\n<li>Syntax highlighting for C++ attributes<\/li>\n<li>Class View substring searches and performance improvements<\/li>\n<li>Generate preprocessed output<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced controls in the bottom margin, including viewing and setting file encoding<\/li>\n<li>File exclusion options in Quick Find and Find in Files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>GitHub Copilot Chat: improved chat experience and new context menu options<\/li>\n<li>C++ project system changes (MSBuild and CMake)<\/li>\n<li>New clang-tidy configuration options<\/li>\n<li>Set command line arguments for the debugger from the toolbar<\/li>\n<li>Mermaid chart rendering<\/li>\n<li>Podman support in Container Tools<\/li>\n<li>Git tools improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/whats-new-for-cpp-developers-in-visual-studio-2026-version-18-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This blog post by Microsoft<\/a> gives details on all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2026-is-here-faster-smarter-and-a-hit-with-early-adopters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broader announcement on the Visual Studio Blog<\/a> for more details on changes that are non-C++-specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.0) is now generally available! It includes a lot of new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements across the board. Here is a selection of what\u2019s new for C++ developers, including new features and improvements: A refreshed IDE UI Support for Visual Studio 2022 extensions out of the box Seamless upgrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-microsoft","tag-visual-c-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}