Microsoft's team shares key takeaways from CppCon 2025, highlighting the growing adoption of AI tooling in C++ development, Visual Studio's debugger popularity, and excitement around C++26 static reflection. The report covers announcements for Visual Studio 2026 and MSVC Build Tools v14.50, including Dynamic Debugging for optimized code, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode, C++23 conformance improvements, and CMake Tools enhancements. Multiple sessions explored reflection-based programming, Rust/C++ interop, memory safety strategies, and practical AI integration through the Model Context Protocol.

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