C++ Project Template

Enhance C++ experience in Visual Studio Code

Overview

A lightweight extension to provide additional C++ project features. It works with C/C++ and CMake Tools to provide the following features:

Create C++ Projects

You can create CMake, Win32 (Windows only), SDL, Meson, and Qt (requires Qt Core) projects.

Create CMake Projects

You can create C, C++, CUDA projects in CMake Project.

Flexible choice of C/C++ language standards

You can select a suitable C/C++ language standard when creating a project. The version you selected will be written in CMakeLists.txt or meson.build.

Create C/C++ file

When you open a folder, you can create C/C++ specific files, like class, enum, interface, it will automatically generate some code in the file, like:

• If you select a class, it will create both .h and .cpp files, and the .cpp file will include .h file.
• If you select a header file, it will contain #ifdef, #define and #endif.

vcpkg integrate

If you select SDL and OpenGL, it will use vcpkg to install third-party modules. This extension will check VCPKG_ROOT, C:\vcpkg (Windows) and ~/vcpkg (MacOS and Linux). If not found, the extension will prompt you to install vcpkg.

vcpkg.json file operation

The right-menu of vcpkg.json provides the following features:

Integrate to CMake

It will integrate the vcpkg toolchain to cmake toolchain, by writing the configuration to the current workspace settings.

Add a Dependency

This extension will show a list of the current available vcpkg ports, you can search a port, and click to install, it will also ask if you want to add port to cmake file.

Requirements

• VS Code (version 1.75.0+)
• C/C++
• CMake Tools