Those skills were put to the test as the team worked to port Windows Calculator -- featuring a ton of C++ code and backed by a calculation engine dating back to 1995, with C code origins -- to C# code ...

“That’s really the inspiration behind the Visual Studio 2019 release,” she said, adding that Visual Studio today was suited to developing in a broad range of programming languages.

Visual Studio gives C++ developers a productivity boost, plus better debugging for Blazor WebAssembly offline apps.

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 and warns developers to stop using older versions.