microsoft/vscode-cpptools

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Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

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Merged PRs (30d): 61

Dominant language: TypeScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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1,388 open issues indexed

Intellisense degraded when using devcontainer remote Open

bug Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12598 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2024
False intellisense error with defaulted template parameter of `decltype(lambda)` in C++20/23 Open

bug Language Service parser

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12588 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2024
macOS lldbinit not loaded Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12580 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2024
Migrate from proposed API `terminalDataWriteEvent` to new `terminalShellIntegration` Open

internal Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12575 · Opened Aug 15, 2024
clang-tidy throws bunch of false errors from <*intrin.h> Open

bug Feature: Code Analysis investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12565 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Go to Definition goes to the wrong header (not used by IntelliSense) when `<string>` actually references a workspace file Open

bug Feature: Go to Definition Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12548 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Add permission check to database path instead of failing silently Open

bug Feature: Document Symbol Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12542 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2024
Warning in `launch.json`: Property `env` is not allowed Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12537 · Opened Aug 2, 2024
Copy Value in C++ debugger copies value incorrectly Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12536 · Opened Aug 2, 2024
Watch window does NOT show vector data correctly in Google Test debug session. Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12533 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Database may randomly not fully populate Open

bug Feature: Symbol Search Language Service regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12505 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2024
Linux: Incorrect Intelli-Sense Error: global wchar_t array initialized with wide character string literal Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service Works in VS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12504 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2024
Program sometimes freezes when quickly using the "Step over (F10)" button while debugging Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12502 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 24, 2024
Outline missing some symbols if within an `extern "C"` block Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 34/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12493 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2024
Failing to run with Fish shell Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12484 · Opened Jul 17, 2024
cpptools sometimes crashes repeatedly in modules_cleanup after tag parsing Open

bug Language Service regression reliability

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12479 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2024
The debugger doesn't hit the breakpoints set in Editor Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12477 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Add LLDB and MIEngine hardware breakpoint support Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12472 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2024
Notification of breaking api change with v1.92 release of VS Code Open

internal Language Service

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12460 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2024
Extension overrides C/C++ standard settings from configuration Open

bug Language Service regression verified

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12451 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 7, 2024
“(declaration)” appears when searching same symbol “fun” in workspace (using “#”), while not appear when searching in a file (using “@”) Open

bug Feature: Document Symbol Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12444 · Opened Jul 5, 2024
Locals/Watch view: Alternative Rendering for Empty Containers Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12435 · Opened Jul 4, 2024
IntelliSense fails to convert long double to int Open

bug fixed Language Service verified

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12431 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2024
Go to Symbol in Workspace (and Go to Def, etc.) can confusingly cause Find All References (or Rename) to be cancelled due to changes to the files.associations Open

bug Feature: Find All References Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12429 · Opened Jul 2, 2024
Workspace symbol search may give no results if the database read times out after 5 seconds Open

bug Feature: Symbol Search Language Service more votes needed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12423 · Opened Jun 28, 2024
add option to hide declarations in 'Outline' Open

enhancement Feature: Document Symbol Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12422 · 4 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jun 28, 2024
Debugger pauses unexpectedly and also has SegFaults and unknown signals which only occur during debugging Open

debugger

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12418 · Opened Jun 27, 2024
class "_PEB::<unnamed>" has no field "ImageUsedLargePages" Open

bug Language Service parser Visual Studio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12402 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Have trouble when Run VS Code outside the Developer Command Prompt Open

bug tasks/build/debug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12409 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Annoying false-positives in C code Open

Feature: Configuration investigate: repro Language Service Verifying - Internal

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12394 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 19, 2024
integrated terminal does not support std::thread output Open

debugger duplicate

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12393 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 19, 2024
Intellisense error sizeof(uint32_t) is 8 bytes Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12377 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 14, 2024
"<unnamed>" is incorrectly offered as a completion Open

bug Feature: Auto-complete Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12376 · Opened Jun 13, 2024
Outline view is randomly incorrect after opening a file and pasting code Open

bug Feature: Document Symbol Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12375 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 13, 2024
The LineEnding setting in .clang-format has no effect within VS Code Open

bug Feature: Code Formatting has workaround Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12352 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Issue with escaping characters in launch.json arguments Open

debugger help wanted investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12350 · Opened Jun 4, 2024
incorrectly formed universal character name using \u{...} Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12341 · 1 comment · Opened May 31, 2024
Within a macro, IntelliSense does not suggest members of a structure that is referenced through another macro Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12335 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2024
Intellisense is totally broken when I include this header file Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12328 · 1 comment · Opened May 23, 2024
Macro incorrectly parsed Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12326 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 22, 2024
Color for CALL STACK in debugg session Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12325 · Opened May 22, 2024
How to let VS CODE print std::string of libc++? Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12324 · Opened May 22, 2024
Special cases where variables are highlighted in the color of the macro definition Open

bug Feature: Colorization Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12321 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 22, 2024
Support additional visualizers directories Open

Feature Request Language Service

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12315 · 2 comments · 12 reactions · Opened May 17, 2024
Display entire definition line when pointing at variable Open

enhancement Feature Request Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12301 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 14, 2024
Cannot deduce class template arguments Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12299 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2024
`__declspec` attribute is not recognised with `-fdeclspec` Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service parser verified Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12282 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 5, 2024
std::initializer_list does not contain the expected constructor Open

Feature: Configuration Language Service verified

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12275 · 16 comments · 8 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 3, 2024
Switch to using libunwind for crash call stacks on Mac Open

enhancement Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12267 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2024
Spurious Intellisense Errors on MacOS CMake project Open

Feature: Configuration Provider investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12255 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 25, 2024

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