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
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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1,388 open issues indexed

Implement a system to sync the list of extensionless files Open

internal

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#14004 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Don't allow editing a variable in debug view if it's not editable Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#14000 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Update Wiki for "RAM disk usage instructions for IntelliSense cache (ipch)" Open

docs

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13991 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Missing/broken ˋ__int128ˋ support Open

debugger Feature Request more votes needed Visual Studio

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13988 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2025
Limit keyword completions based on the current language standard used Open

enhancement Feature: Auto-complete Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13984 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Misleading Licensing, Please Clarify Open

license

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13974 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Formatter or IntelliSense prevents file from being saved by keyboard shortcut Cmd-S Open

bug Feature: Code Formatting investigate: repro Language Service performance

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13972 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Go to Definition slow Open

bug Language Service performance regression

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13970 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2025
cpptools-srv crash in scan_ptr_to_member_operator Open

bug Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13961 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 24, 2025
On-hover docstring comment grabbing comments above non-comment `]` character Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13957 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 22, 2025
cpptools-srv crash in class_member_declaration Open

bug Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13956 · 14 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 22, 2025
`sourceFileMap` should be user configurable Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13940 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 17, 2025
Not Recognizing Used Code as Used Code Or Not Debugging Unused Code Open

debugger Feature: Configuration Language Service more info needed

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13933 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 13, 2025
`configProviderTimeout` is hard-coded to 2s Open

Feature: Configuration Feature: Configuration Provider Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13910 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Debugger Freezes When Inspecting Large Array Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13897 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2025
When debugging multiple inferiors with gdb, if one inferior exits the full debug session stops Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13893 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Settings for using ramdrive for storing temporal IntelliSence data Open

docs Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13890 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2025
Wrong debugging command on MSYS2 terminal Open

bug help wanted tasks/build/debug

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13875 · Opened Aug 23, 2025
WSL: unable to attach GDB to running process Open

bug debugger help wanted

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13863 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Update FAR implementation to better support programmatic invocation Open

internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13861 · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Unable to step or hit breakpoints Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13850 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Slow Remote GDB Debugging Due to Excessive -stack-list-frames 0 1000 Requests Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13847 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2025
IntelliSense in 1.26.3: Makefile Tools configuration ignored, falling back to default configuration Open

bug Feature: Configuration Provider Language Service regression

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13840 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2025
"Expected an Expression" Error for list initialization of template parameter without explicit type Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13835 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Add configuration option to issue a signal when the Stop button is clicked in debugger Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13827 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Inactive regions is sometimes incorrect for an initially opened file with a configuration provider until switching documents Open

bug Feature: Colorization Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13823 · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Musl performance issues (Linux) Open

Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13814 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Show some better UI hint that a compiler is not available from the dropdown of Debug C/C++ file due to a debugger being missing Open

enhancement tasks/build/debug

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13804 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2025
windows 使用vscode 远程debian11 gdb调试代码遇到错误 Open

debugger help wanted question

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13792 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Add telemetry for compiler arguments Open

compiler support Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13787 · Opened Jul 28, 2025
[bug] launch.json envFile not capable of variable interpolation Open

bug help wanted tasks/build/debug

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13781 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2025
Feedback: External Console Closes Automatically in VS Code C/C++ Open

debugger enhancement help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13780 · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Debugger fails under Linux if file size limits are in effect Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13768 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 18, 2025
format code issue: break in macro, Open

external Feature: Code Formatting Language Service

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13761 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2025
using statement drops function qualifiers Open

bug Language Service parser Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13753 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 10, 2025
When the display format of a variable is set to hexadecimal, the context menu for debugging variables is not visible. Open

debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13742 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Auto-trigger vsix builds when insiders/release branches are updated Open

internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13740 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 2, 2025
Missing IntelliSense Hover Docs Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Language Service Works in VS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13738 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Documentation comments stop working when / is removed from */ and then added back Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Works in VS

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13736 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Single `#include` inside of array causes VSCode to report the "expected an expression" error Open

bug Language Service parser Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13735 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2025
Replace pthreads in multithreaded sample with standard C++11 <thread> Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13732 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Language server repeatably crashed with nRF Connect SDK. Open

bug fixed Language Service reliability

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13724 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 24, 2025
LLDB Crash with exit code 139 on macOS 15.5 when launching C++ debug session Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13703 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 15, 2025
Signature help doesn't show the doxygen tparam info Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Feature: Signature Help Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13699 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 13, 2025
gcc emulation: Intellisense produces error where GCC does not in the case of statement expressions Open

bug parser Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13685 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Dogygen show file documentation on popup menu Open

Feature Request Feature: Doc comments Language Service Visual Studio

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microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13684 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Language server crash Open

bug Feature: Doc comments Language Service reliability

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13683 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Switch back to using the official `editorconfig` module Open

Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13680 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2025
1.26 regression: hovering over a long double shows an invalid value on Linux Open

bug Language Service regression Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13674 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2025
getRemoteProcessesExtendedRemote() sensitive to gdb warnings Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#13673 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2025

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