0.16.0-insiders

Download the .vsix that matches your OS and run the "Install from VSIX" command in VS Code.

• Enable autocomplete for local and global scopes. #13
• Add a setting to define multiline comment patterns: C_Cpp.commentContinuationPatterns. #1100, #1539
• Add a setting to disable inactive region highlighting: C_Cpp.dimInactiveRegions. #1592
• Add forcedInclude configuration setting. #852
• Add compilerPath, cStandard, and cppStandard configuration settings, and query gcc/clang-based compilers for default defines. #1293, #1251, #1448, #1465, #1484
• Fix text being temporarily gray when an inactive region is deleted. Microsoft/vscode#44872
• Add support for ${workspaceFolder} variable in c_cpp_properties.json. #1392

This is the March 9th update to Insiders, which fixed a couple bugs with the March 8th version (attach debugging and forcedInclude crash).

Known issues (that will be fixed in our next release): Global :: doesn't work, compilerPath doesn't work on Windows with gcc/clang-based compilers and WSL, and command line args are not addable to the compilerPath.

0.15.0

• Add colorization for inactive regions. #1466
• Fix 3 highest hitting crashes. #1137, #1337, #1497
• Update IntelliSense compiler (bug fixes and more C++17 support). #1067, #1313, #1461
• Fix duplicate cannot open source file errors. #1469
• Fix Go to Symbol in File... being slow for large workspaces. #1472
• Fix stuck processes during shutdown. #1474
• Fix error popup appearing with non-workspace files when using compile_commands.json. #1475
• Fix snippet completions being blocked after #. #1531
• Add more macros to cpp.hint (fixing missing symbols).
• Add __CHAR_BIT__=8 to default defines on Mac. #1510
• Added support for config variables to c_cpp_properties.json. #314
  • Joshua Cannon (@thejcannon) PR #1529
• Define _UNICODE by default on Windows platforms. #1538
  • Charles Milette (@sylveon) PR #1540

0.15.0-insiders

• Add colorization for inactive regions. #1466
• Fix 3 highest hitting crashes. #1137, #1337
• Update IntelliSense compiler (bug fixes and more C++17 support). #1067, #1313, #1461
• Fix Go to Symbol in File... being slow for large workspaces. #1472
• Fix duplicate cannot open source file errors. #1469
• Fix error popup appearing with non-workspace files when using compile_commands.json. #1475
• Add more macros to cpp.hint (fixing missing symbols).

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0.14.6

Bug fixes and workspace parsing performance improvements:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2018/01/17/visual-studio-code-cc-extension-jan-2018-update/

Fix tag parser failing (and continuing to fail after edits) when it shouldn't. #1367
Fix tag parser taking too long due to redundant processing. #1288
Fix debugging silently failing the 1st time if a C/C++ file isn't opened. #1366
Skip automatically adding to files.associations if it matches an existing glob pattern or if C_Cpp.autoAddFileAssociations is false. #722
The debugger no longer requires an extra reload. #1362
Fix incorrect "Warning: Expected file ... is missing" message after installing on Linux. #1334
Fix "Include file not found" messages not re-appearing after settings changes. #1363
Performance improvements with browse.path parsing, and stop showing "Parsing files" when there's no actual parsing. #1393
Fix crash when settings with the wrong type are used. #1396
Allow semicolons in browse.path. #1415
Fix to handle relative pathing in source file paths properly when normalizing. #1228
Fix delay in language service activation caused by cpptools.json downloading. #1429
Add C_Cpp.workspaceParsingPriority setting to enable using less than 100% CPU during parsing of workspace files.
Add C_Cpp.exclusionPolicy default to checkFolders to avoid expensive files.exclude checking on every file.

January 2018 - Insiders release

Add setting to throttle workspace parsing. (#1389)

Add workspaceParsingPriority and exclusionPolicy settings.

0.14.5

• Fix for stackwalk NullReferenceException. #1339
• Fix for -isystem (or -I) not being used in compile_commands.json if there's a space after it. #1343
• Fix for header switching from .cc to .hpp files (and other cases). #1341
• Fix reload prompts not appearing in debugging scenarios (after the initial installation). #1344
• Add a "wait" message when commands are invoked during download/installation. #1344
• Prevent blank "C/C++ Configuration" from appearing when debugging is started but the language service is not. #1353

v0.14.5-insiders

Merge pull request #1336 from Microsoft/ronglu-edit

updated links

0.14.4

December 2017 Update

We added support for offline installation, 32-bit Linux, and Linux distros without glibc 2.18 (e.g. CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux). The list of issues fixed is:

• Enable the language service processes to run without glibc 2.18. #19
• Enable the language service processes to run on 32-bit Linux. #424
• Fix extension process not working on Windows with non-ASCII usernames. #1319
• Fix IntelliSense on single processor VMs. #1321
• Enable offline installation of the extension. #298
• Add support for -isystem in compile_commands.json. #1156
• Remember the selected configuration across launches of VS Code. #1273
• Fix 'Add Configuration...` entries not appearing if the extension wasn't previously activated. #1287
• Add (declaration) to declarations in the navigation list. #1311
• Fix function definition body not being visible after navigation. #1311
• Improve performance for fetching call stacks with large arguments. #363

0.14.3

This release addresses multiple community-reported issues

• Fix for disappearing parameter hints tooltip. #1165
• Fix for parameter hints only showing up after the opening parenthesis. #902, #819
• Fix for customer reported crashes in the TypeScript extension code. #1240, #1245
• Fix .browse.VC-#.db files being unnecessarily created when an shm file exists. #1234
• Fix High CPU load on unsupported Linux distros. #1249
• Fix language service to only activate after a C/C++ file is opened or a C/Cpp command is used (not onDebug).
• Fix database resetting if shutdown was blocked by an IntelliSense operation.
• Fix deadlock that can occur when switching configurations.
• Fix browse.databaseFilename changing not taking effect until a reload.

0.14.2

Shortly after releasing 0.14.1 we noticed a spike in our extension activation telemetry. It turned out that a few users were attempting to activate the extension on a Linux platform that we don't support yet and VS Code was repeatedly trying to activate our extension after it crashed. We pushed a patch for the telemetry bug to reduce the amount of network traffic those users would see.