[Updated on 11/4/2019] – Removed mentions of “Improved Member Function Completion” which is no longer supported based on user feedback.
The January 2019 update of the Visual Studio Code C++ extension is now available. This release includes many new features and bug fixes including documentation comments support, improved #include autocomplete performance, and many IntelliSense bug fixes. For a full list of this release’s improvements, check out our release notes on Github.
Documentation Comments
We added support for documentation comments for hover, completion, and signature help. You can now see documentation comments in tooltips. Let’s look at a simple box_sample.cpp program that defines a “Box” object with various dimensions.