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Visual Studio 2019 has several improvements that speed up build and link time for game developers.
The improvements help developers of games such as Forza Horizon 4 spend more time writing code.
Link times in Visual Studio 2019 are 18.15 times faster than in Visual Studio 2017.
Visual Studio s C++ team improved the build and link times for Visual Studio 2019, which resulted in link times that are 18.15 times faster than in Visual Studio 2017. As a result, game developers of popular titles like Forza Horizon 4 can spend more time coding and improving games and less time compiling things.
The improvements and explanations of these changes are rather technical, especially for non-developers such as myself, but the end result is that game developers get to spend more time doing what they do best, developing games. The improvements to Visual Studio 2019 and how they affect game development are outlined in a new blog post from David Li, Microsoft Visual Studio C+
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Investigators probing the supply chain attack that hit SolarWinds say attackers successfully hacked the company s Microsoft Visual Studio development tools to add a backdoor into software builds.
The backdoor, dubbed Sunburst, was added to the company s Orion network monitoring software beginning in March 2020. Up to 18,000 customers installed and ran the Trojanized software. Attackers then used the backdoor to target a subset of customers, perhaps numbering in the hundreds, for second-stage attacks, which could have led to data exfiltration, eavesdropping - including email inbox access - and follow-on attacks against business partners.
SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna
On Monday, Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds released an update on its attack investigation, reporting that investigators have successfully reverse-engineered code that attackers injected into its software development tools.