microsoft/vscode-cpptools

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

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

Debugging on WSL - Must kill the integrated terminal after each debugging session, or gdb will not launch. Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12240 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2024
rename function name doesn't work in C project Open

bug Feature: Rename Language Service not reproing

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12238 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2024
debugging inside a lambda that captures this shows the 'lambda' this instead of the 'this' 'this' Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12229 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2024
Doesn't hit the breakpoint set in the code editor Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12214 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 17, 2024
Add support for listening to "restart debug" events Open

debugger enhancement help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12203 · Opened Apr 16, 2024
EASteamProxy.exe breaks VScode "command:pickProcess" Open

bug debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12197 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2024
Unable to paste multiple lines to integrated terminal while debugging C++ Open

debugger help wanted Language Service more info needed

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12191 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 12, 2024
Incorrect "Unable to process IntelliSense for file with same canonicalized path as existing file." message can appear when cpptools crashes Open

bug Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12187 · 18 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Intellisense doesn't work on windows case sensitive folders Open

bug investigate: repro Language Service regression

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12178 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Basic Include files error Open

Feature: Configuration investigate: repro Language Service Not Repro - Internal

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12171 · Opened Apr 5, 2024
Set `-enable-pretty-printing` and `-gdb-set disassembly-flavor intel` as default Open

debugger Feature Request help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12152 · Opened Mar 28, 2024
All IntelliSense servers are forced to reset whenever a CMake: Install is run Open

bug Feature: Configuration Provider Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12150 · Opened Mar 27, 2024
unable to add extensiom Open

debugger more info needed

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12142 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 26, 2024
GDB exit when viewing the registers Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12137 · Opened Mar 25, 2024
Debug attach session never starts (endless waiting/loading) Open

bug debugger help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12120 · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Autoformatting with `modificationsIfAvailable` changes too many lines Open

bug Feature: Code Formatting Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12119 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Receiving AD7BreakpointErrorEvent when trying to re-enable breakpoint in VS Code while debuggin QNX app Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12115 · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Let cpp extension tooltip support \code tag in comment. Open

Feature Request Feature: Doc comments Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12114 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Exclude arguments from compiler queries that are not relevant to system includes or system defines Open

compiler support Feature: Compile Commands Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12106 · Opened Mar 15, 2024
Fix multiple-initialization on crash recovery - Client creation needs refactoring Open

internal Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12105 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2024
Select default compiler should include the currently selected compiler if it is not listed elsewhere Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12098 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2024
Implement support format request: provideDocumentRangesFormattingEdits Open

bug Feature: Code Formatting fixed investigate: repro Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12082 · 12 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 8, 2024
Incorrect Intellisense error "a constexpr function cannot have a nonliteral return type" when returning struct containing optional<string> (C++20) Open

bug Language Service parser Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12076 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Add semantic token modifier for constant variables Open

Feature Request Feature: Colorization Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12061 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2024
debugging remote device get asynchronous between call stack and toolbar Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12040 · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Add support for semantic token enumMember declaration modifier Open

Feature Request Feature: Colorization Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12039 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Coloring problem in the source files Open

Feature: Colorization Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12019 · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Add to include code actions shows old folder suggestions after a folders are renamed (unless Rescan Workspace is used) Open

bug Feature: Add '#include' Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12009 · Opened Feb 23, 2024
Add #include "file.h" is incorrectly suggested instead of <file.h> for subDir/file.h Open

bug Feature: Add '#include' Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#12002 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2024
Natvis: Size specifier for array-like structures is not working Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11995 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2024
Don't restart gdb process when retart debug Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11991 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 21, 2024
Stepping over std::vector<std::string> v{""} with g++-12 incorrect jumps to the end of the function Open

bug debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11987 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2024
Find all references on constructor also find references of namespace Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11983 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 19, 2024
VSDebugConsole.exe tries to access non-existent path as its starting directory. Open

bug debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11972 · Opened Feb 15, 2024
externalTerminal console does not launch when path includes spaces Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio Code

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11970 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2024
M3 Mac debug shared_ptr<vector<>> object exited unexpectedly with exit code 132 (0x84) Open

debugger help wanted

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11966 · Opened Feb 14, 2024
Add End-2-end 'Extract to function' tests Open

Feature: Extract to function internal Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11963 · Opened Feb 13, 2024
[IntelliSense C] The "defined" operator is not correctly interpreted by #if Open

bug Feature: Configuration Language Service more votes needed Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11959 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 13, 2024
Duplicate Create / Copy Definition code actions sometimes appear Open

bug Feature: Create Declaration or Definition Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11957 · Opened Feb 13, 2024
Multiple Matches for a symbol in GDB Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11953 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Incomplete presentation of warnings in editor when build tasks are set to use 'shared' panels, reveal policy 'silent'. Open

Language Service tasks/build/debug

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11950 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Symbols loading from the target (via gdb/gdbserver) does not work Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11949 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Workspace symbol search can randomly take longer if files are being tag parsed Open

bug Feature: Symbol Search Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11945 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Sizeof struct incorrect for packed structs when preprocessor macro is used Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11944 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Decimal use produces unexpected errors: "identifier "_Decimal128" is undefined"; "extra text after expected end of number" Open

bug Language Service Visual Studio

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11939 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 8, 2024
VS Code when debugging with gdb can't find source file. Open

debugger help wanted Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11935 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Feature Request: CPU Profiler Support Open

Feature Request Language Service performance

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11930 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Breakpoints are off when debugging through vscode, but work correctly when run through gdb correctly Open

debugger Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11929 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Troubleshooting set history save on in GDB History Logging in Visual Studio Code Open

debugger Language Service

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

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11926 · Opened Feb 3, 2024
IntelliSense: constexpr give wrong result. Open

bug Language Service verified Visual Studio

microsoft/vscode-cpptools#11916 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 2, 2024

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