--- title: Blog | QuasarDB | visual studio description: visual studio | --- [![Quasar](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/logo-1.svg?t=1538728673587)](https://quasardb.net/) - [What is Quasar?](https://quasar.ai/what-is-quasar/) - [Deployment & Pricing](https://quasar.ai/deployment-pricing/) - [Blog & News](https://quasar.ai/blog-news/) - Company - [About us](https://quasar.ai/about/) - [Contact us](https://quasar.ai/contact/) - [Support & Services](https://quasar.ai/support-services/) - [Documentation](https://doc.quasardb.net/master/) # Blog [![](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/feelfarbig-magazine-LD6IRW3mUU8-unsplash.jpg)](https://blog.quasar.ai/three-cool-free-extensions-for-vs-2019) ## [Three cool free extensions for VS 2019](https://blog.quasar.ai/three-cool-free-extensions-for-vs-2019) Posted by [Edouard](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/edouard) on 19 Sep 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Although QuasarDB is mostly run on Linux, most of the development team works primarily on Windows using [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/). It’s because VS has the most advanced native debugger, sitting on top of the [Windows Debug API](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/debugging-functions). [Read More](https://blog.quasar.ai/three-cool-free-extensions-for-vs-2019) Tags: [cpp](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/cpp), [debugging](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/debugging), [visual studio](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/visual-studio), [extension](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/extension) [![debugging](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/debugging.png)](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/12/01/debugging-in-gdb-from-visual-studio) ## [Debugging in GDB from Visual Studio](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/12/01/debugging-in-gdb-from-visual-studio) Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 01 Dec 2015 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) I wanted to share some tips and tricks for those of you who use a recently released [Visual Studio GDB Debugger](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/35dbae07-8c1a-4f9d-94b7-bac16cad9c01) extension. You may want to read [the announcing blog post](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/11/18/announcing-the-vs-gdb-debugger-extension.aspx) as well. [Read More](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/12/01/debugging-in-gdb-from-visual-studio) Tags: [debugging](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/debugging), [gdb](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/gdb), [Uncategorized](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/uncategorized), [visual studio](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/visual-studio) [![IMG_8938-2](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/IMG_8938-2.jpg)](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/01/30/stdchrono-ambiguities) ## [std::chrono ambiguities](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/01/30/stdchrono-ambiguities) Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 30 Jan 2015 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Precision is costly - As you saw in our previous post getting a timestamp as precise as possible is expensive in precious cycles. We do it only when we really need it because we really care about writing the [world fastest database](https://www.quasardb.net/). [Read More](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/01/30/stdchrono-ambiguities) Tags: [c++](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/c), [chrono](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/chrono), [libc++](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/libc), [stl](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/stl), [Uncategorized](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/uncategorized), [visual studio](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/visual-studio) [![qdb_logo_black_square_x400](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/qdb_logo_black_square_x400.jpg)](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/04/30/utf-8-strings-in-visual-c) ## [UTF-8 strings and Visual C++](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/04/30/utf-8-strings-in-visual-c) Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 30 Apr 2009 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) MAnd Unicode came to this world - Most of us don't work in ANSI or ASCII anymore. Most of the projects I work on are either [UTF-8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) or [UTF-16](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF_16). [Read More](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/04/30/utf-8-strings-in-visual-c) Tags: [c++](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/c), [Uncategorized](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/uncategorized), [unicode](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/unicode), [visual studio](https://blog.quasar.ai/tag/visual-studio) [All posts](https://blog.quasar.ai/all) - [![QuasarDB](https://blog.quasar.ai/hubfs/logo-1.svg?t=1539155681377)](https://quasardb.net/) - [What is Quasar?](https://quasar.ai/what-is-quasar/) - [Deployment & Pricing](https://quasar.ai/deployment-pricing/) - [Blog & News](https://quasar.ai/blog-news/) - [Support & Services](https://quasar.ai/support-services/) - [Documentation](https://doc.quasardb.net/master/) - [About Us](https://quasar.ai/about/) - [Contact us](https://quasar.ai/contact/) - - - - © Copyright 2026 QuasarDB. All rights reserved - [Legal information](https://quasar.ai/legal-information/) - [Privacy policy](https://quasar.ai/privacy-policy/)