microsoft/vscode-cpptools

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

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Indexed issues: 1.4k
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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

/permissive compilerArgs doesn't suppress all errors suppressed by cl.exe Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11905 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2024
Remove behavior where `compilerPath` overrides `compile_commands.json` entries, in favor of using an additional setting. Open

configuration revision enhancement Feature: Compile Commands Feature: Configuration Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11889 · 24 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 20, 2024
cannot set breakpoint in .gdbinit/DebuggerConsole Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11882 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2024
Create Declaration / Definition updating appears to be a lot slower on Linux/Mac Open

bug Feature: Create Declaration or Definition Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11875 · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Add IntelliSense code linter for C++ Open

Feature Request Language Service Works in VS

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11872 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 17, 2024
intellisense still suggests the function has been deleted of a class in C++ Open

bug Language Service verified Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11869 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2024
VS Code 'terminal.integrated.env.*' settings not taken into account for 'miDebuggerPath' Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11857 · Opened Jan 11, 2024
pretty-print not working under remote attach debug mode Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11851 · Opened Jan 9, 2024
Add better formatting options to the disassembly view. Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11844 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2024
Change CPU register value Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11843 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2024
cpptools does not respect freestanding environment Open

bug Language Service verified Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11837 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Falsy "variable "Test" is not a type name" Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11821 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 1, 2024
Can't run the code without debugging with new MINGW version on Windows Open

debugger duplicate Feature: Configuration help wanted investigate: repro Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11820 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 31, 2023
Error launching debugger in vscode Open

debugger

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11809 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 27, 2023
workspace config dir continuously being polled Open

by design Feature: Configuration Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11806 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2023
Disassembly View ARM (Thumb) Instruction Bytes are Backwards Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11803 · Opened Dec 22, 2023
Missing include path code actions aren't cleared when the squiggles are cleared Open

bug Feature: Add '#include' Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11799 · Opened Dec 21, 2023
edge_filebuf will rebuild line mappings for every character typed Open

internal Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11791 · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Semantic highlighting - variables vs constants Open

Feature Request Feature: Colorization Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11788 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2023
IntelliSense has major problems with sqlite3.c Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11775 · Opened Dec 13, 2023
Output can only shown on debug console on Visual Studio Code on macOS. Open

bug debugger

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11771 · 10 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2023
Qt header files not recognized Open

investigate: repro

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11769 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 9, 2023
Microsoft C++ configure "Run VS Code outside the Developer Command Prompt" doesn't work Open

transferred-from-docs

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11811 · 13 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 8, 2023
'Extract to member function' doesn't create a static member function when used in static member function not defined in the class declaration Open

Feature: Extract to function Language Service Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11767 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Can the disassembly view be show in an editor window? So that It can be copied and highlighted Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11766 · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Call hierarchy for structure member variable should show function names that reference it Open

Feature Request Feature: Call Hierarchy Language Service

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11765 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Invalid squiggles after modifying a function return type Open

bug Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11764 · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Stale squiggles after a signature-help attempt Open

bug Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11761 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 7, 2023
rapid "IntelliSense process crash detected" for multiple crash types like request completion, update intellisence, etc. Open

Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11753 · 16 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 2, 2023
How do I fix this problem: "Unable to start the C/C++ language server. IntelliSense features will be disabled. Error: Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir " Open

investigate: repro Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11752 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2023
Intellisense suggestions does not work inside a template lambda and a macro. Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11751 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 1, 2023
Code analysis should forward `-target` to clang Open

enhancement Feature: Code Analysis Language Service more votes needed quick fix

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11749 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 1, 2023
Call Hierarchy sometimes does not expand Callers Of properly when multiple are expanded quickly Open

bug Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11747 · Opened Dec 1, 2023
[internal] Update native tests to allow finer control of document visibility and activation. Open

internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11746 · Opened Nov 30, 2023
Language server crashed Open

bug Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11745 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 30, 2023
Don't trigger an IntelliSense update on fileChanged/Created/Deleted if it's not a C/C++ file Open

enhancement Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11744 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 30, 2023
Request: Intellisense ordering by context relevance Open

Feature Request Feature: Auto-complete Language Service Works in VS

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11738 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 25, 2023
IntelliSense errors with chromium codebase Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service reliability

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11736 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Errors Related to Variable Definition Location and Colorization under WSL Open

bug Language Service more votes needed verified Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11733 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 22, 2023
'Create Declaration / Definition' fails with an "Unknown error" if a class declaration already exists Open

bug Feature: Create Declaration or Definition Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11728 · Opened Nov 22, 2023
'Extract to function' is not available due to error 'The selected text cannot span different functions' in certain cases Open

bug Feature: Extract to function Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11727 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 22, 2023
Include completion doesn't work for subfolders under the Kernel framework directory on Mac Open

bug Feature: Auto-complete Language Service more votes needed

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11726 · Opened Nov 22, 2023
Language Service Features Not Working on Remote Open

duplicate

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11716 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2023
Native test needed for unhandled symlink scenario Open

internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11707 · Opened Nov 17, 2023
`yarn build` should run `yarn install` and `generate-native-strings` Open

internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11705 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Add missing include should prioritize the header with the class definition over headers with only a forward declaration (VS:1906590) Open

bug Feature: Add '#include' Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11703 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 17, 2023
'Extract to function' formatting operation my get delayed by an IntelliSense update Open

bug Feature: Extract to function Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11675 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2023
C code can not be parsed correctly when upgrade c/c++ plugin to v1.17.x and v1.18.x version Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service regression

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11666 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 13, 2023
Large Vector Causes Debugger to Completely Freeze Open

bug debugger

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11662 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 11, 2023
The workspaceSymbols setting of "Just My Code" incorrectly filters out non-system browse.path folders that aren't under the workspace root Open

bug Feature: Symbol Search Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11650 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2023

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