Visual C++ for Linux Development
Visual C++ for Linux Development is the Visual Studio 2015’s extension by Microsoft that lets us write C++ code in Visual Studio for Linux machines and devices. It connects to the machine or device over SSH and uses machine / device’ g++, gdb and gdbserver to provide compilation and debugging experience from within Visual Studio. After installing the extension; it adds Linux Connection Manager into Visual Studio’s Options dialog through which we manage the SSH connections to Linux machines or devices (ARM also supported). It also adds the project types; currently there are three; Blink (Raspberry), Console Application (Linux) and Empty Project (Linux). You can write the C++ code using Unix headers and libraries. For intellisence / removing red squiggles; you will need to download the header files (using PUTTY’s PSCP) to the development machine and add that folder in the project properties’ VC++ Directories section