Modern C development with Visual studio in 2023.

This video is intended for people not familiar with Visual Studio, and gives a quick over view of what it is like to develop and debug C code in visual studio.

This video is in no way endorsed, affiliated or sponsored by Microsoft.

@quelsolaar
@eskilsteenberg

[logician]

Your videos are very helpful, could you make more long C videos?

[LogicEu]

These talks are one of the best C masterclasses out there, thank you!

[ENDESGA]

VS also has the ability to show massive strings when in Debug mode and hovering over strings, which makes it super easy to deal with. Lots of QOL features!

[CGMossa]

I recently discovered you. In the absence of good modern C resources, your channel is very valuable.
Please keep posting.

My prefered setup is of course vscode + C/C++ extensions there... Because why not have a headache while you're at it

[MrHaggyy]

I highly appreciate tools like Visual Studio. I do primarly embedded stuff and the watch window is awesome for memory alignment. Also quite handy to keep track if something get's bigger in memory then it is supposed to be.
In the watch window you can keep track of variables while the rest is running until they work on Quick Window.

Those tools let you mess around more with the code and let you understand it with experiments. Which is much quicker in my experience then reading the whole thing. And as you showed they catch quite a view more bugs, which is always a good thing.

[eniever]

Yet another piece valuable info from an exceptional professional of the field. Once again, thank you, Eskil! <3

[ercre]

Funny how you post that just after your stream that made me want to rewatch your "How I program C" video! Hehe thanks
Edit: I had no idea they implemented Hot Reload just like the JVM did years and years ago, this is priceless: the speed of iteration you get out of it is incredible. Of course you could still make hot reload yourself with a DLL and an EXE but... Having it OOB is wonderful

[versacebroccoli]

This is really great stuff. Please keep the modern c content coming!

[CuriousCyclist]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Much appreciated.

[KnP_Falco-N]

I always enjoy when a new video of yours pops up.

[littlecurrybread]

I've been really struggling with debuggers in linux. Been using nvim with different tools but nothing seems quite as robust as what you have displayed here. Ty for showing this off!

[not_herobrine]

six years on and i still have to remember to turn the volume down after the video finishes

[starcw]

Oh WOW! Eskil Steenberg with a new video! This is fantastic! 🍀

[ExCyberino]

i've been waiting to hear from you.

[Little-bird-told-me]

Your C video made in 2016 is still one of the best contents on C. I use vim and I think I am gonna try VS

[romangeneral]

I've done the opposite. I moved off of Visual Studio as I could not take anymore the overhead. Mind you I code mainly in C++. I switched over to Emacs (Doom Framework). It fits my need... Great Video and would love to see more!

[TheKer]

This is pretty cool! I did a couple of months of C in a 42 school, and reached the fractal task, which kind of killed me excitement. I think my "Why?" was abit off. Regardless making games has been a great attractor for me. Not sure if I will continue with C, but it darn is tempting.

Great introduction to this tool, thanks!

A question: how many little bad games did you develop before taking on the Love project and sorry if it has been talked already over and over (I am jut discovering you channel). Thanks !

[lazergenix]

I didn't know about that comma thing to view pointer as an array. Very helpful video, thanks

[aaronhorner]

Hi Eskil!

Im not a programmer, but I just rediscovered your game Love from back in the day. A very special game and bewildering puzzle for my young self. I wonder if you have every considered returning to that games concept? I hope you are very well, Thank you.

Aaron

[ricardosdl]

Hi!
You said that you don't use makefiles, that instead you use #pragma comment etc. So you just put the libraries files you depend upon directly inside your project? Is this portable to other compilers/OS's/architectures?
Thanks!