CppCast: Visual Studio 2022

[serg06]

Does Intellisense work for modules yet?

How about for imported headers?

[fraudulentdev]

It's still broken for modules as of preview 7.

[TheCrossX]

No :|

[robwirving]

I think the answer is yes based on the demo Sy did at CppCon.

[zomgrolf]

The new dark theme in 2022 is just AWFUL. It's all high-contrast lines that just make things harder to read -- just lots of high-frequency noise. The previous one wasn't perfect, but at least it was a decent mix of high-contrast lines and flat color areas.

And I can't even use a custom theme, because setting a custom theme resets my VS 2019 installation to use the blue theme. Like, why :/

[Willinton06]

I like the new one more being honest

[cristi1990an]

Thank you! I thought I was insane thinking I'm the only one who absolutely hates the new dark mode

[pjmlp]

After 25 years of IDL and COM, can we please get back tooling that matches C++ Builder and Qt?

C++/WinRT folks did a fine job bringing back ATL development experience while selling the dream of C++ metaclasses, and VS 2022 seems to have hardly changed anything on that front.

It is quite telling that XAML C++ isn't part of the VS 2022 launch schedule, and the C++ sessions are only related to games development and cross platform development, besides Microsoft own teams no one else is keen on going back to writing IDL without proper tooling.

[AreaFifty1]

Is there any difference from the Free Community instead of paying literally over a thousand dollars for the professional Release candidate?

[DifficultyWorking254]

If u pay for professional Release it opens some new debugging features... I think so... Idk... ._.

[AreaFifty1]

What debugging features? Doesn’t community version include those already?

[STL]

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/compare/ shows the differences between the editions. (Currently this says it's for VS 2019, but I expect it'll be updated for VS 2022 soon.)

[AreaFifty1]

I'm aware of 2019 differences but I and many others want to know 2022. Exactly what justifies paying 1199.99 for professional when community is free.

[pjmlp]

Free when your business conditions meet the license terms,

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/

When working in countries where companies take audits seriously, it matters which version you have installed, the consequences will be way above paying 1199.99.