Unification Tasks

This internal issue tracks tasks related to the Unification effort - porting/abstracting code in VC such that it can be leveraged directly by both VC and cpptools. This is for project progress tracking purposes. It is incomplete, and subject to change.

• Browse Unification ⏳

  • Use VC work items and external vcpkgsrv process to populate the browse database, build include graph, etc. ⏳
    • Initial population ⏳
      • Fast, async Enumeration of browse paths contents ⏳
    • Database rename/reset ⏳
    • Individual file add/change/remove parsing (project rescan?)
    • New progress notifications for population progress UI
    • New abort handling
    • Remove/Clean-up existing cpptools code related to populating the browse database ⏳
    • Move global cpp.hint file to where common code expects to find it (bin dir), or change where it looks for it.
    • (VC codebase) Add support for default encoding setting (files.encoding) to DirectBuffer
    • (VC codebase) Add support for default encoding setting to DB initialization (reset DB when default/fallback encoding changes).

• Configuration Management

  • (VC codebase) Hooks to enable file configurations for browse and TU creation (instead of canonicalized CL command-lines).
  • Integratation with new configuration system: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6931

• TU Creation using EdgeSystem

• Switch to VC work items for IntelliSense features

  • Error squiggles, colorization, inactive regions - progressive
  • Quick Info / Hover
  • Navigations (Goto def, goto decl)
  • Complete
  • Signature Help
  • FAR
  • Rename

• Misc

  • (VC and cpptools codebases) Remove path_utf8 class in favor of path_view, etc.
  • Need a new approach for vcpkg telemetry, as this is currently implemented in cpptools include graph generation, which will be replaced by Unification.