A Year in Review: Microsoft's Latest CMake Improvements in Visual Studio and VS Code

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Lists concrete changes and shows working demos: Visual Studio and VS Code add Copilot awareness for CMake project info, presets support for v7–v9 and CMake versions reported as 328–330, three VS Code releases 118–120 with specific fixes, a new debugger working directory property that the demo proves sets the process CWD correctly, built‑in CMake language services with colorization, quick info and completions, a trace option for configure output, improved project outline and cleaner documentation.

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1. 0:00CMake improvements intro
2. 0:43VS CMake updates
3. 1:25VS Code CMake highlights
4. 1:45New CMake tools demo
5. 3:14Copilot for CMake
6. 4:59CMake presets v9
7. 5:41CMake language services
8. 6:46Project outline view
9. 7:49Debugger working dir
10. 9:18CMake docs update
11. 10:00Closing

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