Visual Studio Blog

The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team

Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!
Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!
September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21
We are on a journey to make Visual Studio more flexible than ever, so that you can make the IDE work just the way you like it! One of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2022 is to build a personal, flexible IDE that you can make your own. We’ve teamed up with theme authors from the community to test a new tool that converts VS Code themes...
Discover quick actions for common tasks as you type, with IntelliCode
Discover quick actions for common tasks as you type, with IntelliCode
September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21
Have you ever found yourself wishing there was a built-in tool to accomplish a common task? You could not find the tool and started the work manually. Only after you have started the work, you discover there was a quick action to do the task. IntelliCode can now spot when you're performing a common task and recommend the right quick action...
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 is now available!
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 is now available!
September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21
We are excited to announce the fourth preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 4, there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog, we're highlighting a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4. We’d love for you to ...
Optimizing toolbars for your workflow
Optimizing toolbars for your workflow
August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21
Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. I love Visual Studio. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my various development workflows—I personalized it. Just like I would with a home in ...
It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?
It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?
August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21
We recently asked in an installer survey what you’d find valuable to see while you’re staring at the installer screen during updates/installations in Visual Studio 2022, and y’all said tips and tricks!  Y’all also told us that you want to see tips in the IDE, too—in a Visual Studio start page! Receiving tips from a virtual ...
Revamped Project Properties UI
Revamped Project Properties UI
August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21
In Visual Studio 2022 we are improving your experiences around navigating and modifying your project's properties. The world of .NET is in a very different place than it was a few years ago. With a growing diverse user-base and increasingly cross-platform projects, we decided that the Visual Studio project properties were due for a much-needed...
Flexible theming capabilities for Visual Studio 
Flexible theming capabilities for Visual Studio 
August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21
If you're like me, maybe you feel like customizing Visual Studio so that your workflow suits your habits in just the right way. Here are a few updates in Visual Studio 2022 that can help with that! We’ve introduced the ability to sync your Visual Studio theme with your Windows theme so that reading can become easier depending on the amount ...