C++ in the Age of AI: Visual Studio at CppCon 2026

This article discusses how Visual Studio is evolving to enhance productivity for C++ developers, particularly in the context of AI integration and large codebases. It serves as a companion guide to a session presented at CppCon 2026.

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At CppCon 2026, we shared how Visual Studio is evolving to help you work more effectively with large C++ codebases, improve build and runtime performance, adopt the latest language features, and incorporate AI into your existing workflows. This post is a companion reading guide for our session, C++ in the Age of AI: How Visual Studio Is Evolving , with links to learn more about the features and improvements we discussed.

We will update this post with the YouTube video once the recording of the talk is available.

These two release roundups provide the most complete overview of what has changed for C++ developers in Visual Studio over the past year:

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