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hi folks my name is david lee

i am the c plus plus game dev pm at

visual studio

i'm here to talk to you about some new

and exciting changes in visual studio

2022

recently our ceo satya nadella has said

as a company microsoft's all in on

gaming

at visual studio we're all in on gaming

too

we have been creating new and exciting

experiences for visual studio based on

your feedback

whether you're an unreal developer

an indie game developer

whether you make your game on your

proprietary engine or work at a triple a

game studio

let me show you why vs 2022 is the ide

for you first let me get started with

the demo on hot reload

now for game developers this might sound

familiar to you

have you ever spent 30 minutes playing

your game just to get to a specific

state

spend all those minutes and hours

getting to that state just to find out

your bug fix didn't work

or if you're a technical artist

if you repeatedly have to restart a game

just to see your micro art iterations

hot reload

is a feature for you

let me show you how hot reload works

imagine you're building an open source

cross-platform singing project like bit

fighter here

in bit fighter you have a ship

that has a red round shield

you can activate the shield with the

press of a button

now what if you want to

make the shield a little bit more

exciting

let's do that in visual studio

here instead of the color red

i'm going to make a cyan

and instead of a circle

i'm going to draw a star

normally

without hot reload you will have to

close down the game

rebuild it

and click through the menus just to get

to the same state

with hot reload all you have to do is to

press the hot reload button

it takes a few seconds for hot reload to

run

but see here

a giant 10 point blue star

isn't that crazy

okay

maybe that's a little bit too exciting

let's change it back to something a

little bit more reasonable

instead of the star

i'm gonna go back to the circle

but this time instead of red

i'm going to change the color to gold

instead of pressing the hot reload

button

you can also activate hot reload on file

save

to enable that go to the drop down next

to the hot reload button

click hot reload on file save

once that is enabled

every time you save the game

through ctrl s or the save button

the change are automatically applied

here

a gold round shield

heart reload supports any changes that

are currently supported by edit and

continue

and it's not limited to only game

developers

with hot reload you no longer have to

close your application

recompile it

get the application back to the same

state only to find out your fix doesn't

work

instead of spending minutes and hours

getting to the same state when debugging

take those precious minutes back with

hot reload for c plus

next let me show you a demo with

intellicode for unreal engine

we built intellicode for unreal engine

by parsing many unreal engine databases

and making an ai model

when enabled intellicode for unreal

engine shows up in unreal projects

for established developers

intellicode saves time by suggesting the

most common suggestions and sorting them

to the top of the member list for new

developers intellicode suggests the

right apis in the right place

for teams you can train custom team

models over your code base which makes

effects of intellicode even more

powerful by providing suggestions on

internal types as well as more specified

suggestions based on your team's coding

patterns

this also makes it easier to onboard new

developers as it helps suggest things

the team is using

elsewhere here let me demonstrate how

intellicode works with member access

when you press a dot

intellicode suggestions will show up

with a star

the star denotes

that this suggestion

is from intellicode

similarly down here

when you press the dot operator

you'll get another intellicode based

suggestion

down below the arrow operator also

brings up a list of intellicode

suggested suggestions

denoted by the stars

in this case the top suggestion is get

controller

with intellicode for unreal engine

power up your experience of developing

unreal engine games in visual studio

we have been working closely with epic

games to make a great experience of

developing unreal engine games in visual

studio

having tried unreal engine

you can check it out

under the game development with c plus

workload and visual studio installer

one of the things that we have been

working with epic games is increasing

the responsiveness of intellisense

intellisense for ue projects is now

significantly more responsive due to

utilizing pch when generating vs project

files

look for this new updates in a new

version of unreal engine 4.27 coming

soon

similarly intellicode for unreal engine

5 is coming in an upcoming release

what do you want as an unreal engine

developer in visual studio

we want to know

connect with us on twitter

and leave us your feedback

aside from making unreal engine

intellisense improvements we have also

been making core performance and c plus

plus intellisense improvements in visual

studio 2022

we have made a test based on unreal

engine 4.27

a large project

and benchmarked it

with vs 2019 against vs 2022

the timings were taken when vs opens a

project for the first time and

subsequent times averaged over 3 runs

visual studio 2022 feels faster getting

to code

you can get to code quicker in visual

studio 2022 and open the file twice as

fast

you can also wait less time for

intellisense ready

get the syntactic highlighting and code

changes to appear in member list twice

as fast

with the new improved intellisense

performance in visual studio 2022 you

can save seconds each time you open the

file

we hear your pain about intellisense

performance

with game developers

now these are only few seconds

each action

but imagine

how many times are you opening a file

every day

how many times are you waiting for

intellisense to open

every time you open a new file

these are only a few seconds but add up

over time

especially for bigger projects

this will scale

these are small numbers

but they add up

we want more feedback because we aren't

done making improvements

install visual studio 2022 side by side

with vs 2019

we want to make it easy

vs 2022 is binary compatible with

previous c plus plus 2 sets in 2019 or

older

if you're coming from vs 2019

you may be familiar with our build

through pro improvements

let me briefly tell you what you will

gain from upgrading to the latest tools

using the latest tools

the gears 5 team and the coalition saw a

2.67 times faster end to end build time

and 2.8 faster link time compared to vs

2017

similarly

at turn 10 studios

they saw a five times improvement

in link times for forza motorsports

for forza horizon 4 the link times are

now 18 times faster than in visual

studio 2017.

the decrease in build time enabled

playground games to switch from debug

fast link

to debug full

you can enjoy all the benefits of the

latest tool sets by upgrading vs2022

when you load your projects you'll be

prompted to upgrade but you don't have

to

you can still use the old compilers and

the older tool sets and it will still

work

you can enjoy the ide experience of

visual studio 2022 that way

third-party libraries will also work

don't have a package manager

try vc package

download visual studio 2022 today

and try out all the new and exciting

features we have in store for you