What’s New in Visual Studio: Make it Your Home

June 15, 2022 Jun 15, 2022 06/15/22
Grace Taylor
Visual Studio 2022 features an array of improvements during each major and minor release, and we know that you may not have a lot of time to find and try them after each update. We also heard from the developer community that you’d like an easy way to keep up with new Visual Studio capabilities that could be useful in your day-to-day work...

Arm64 Visual Studio

June 14, 2022 Jun 14, 2022 06/14/22
Mark Downie
We are excited to announce that the release of Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 is now available as a native Arm64 application on Windows 11! This will be the first version of Visual Studio that will natively support building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors. Our key goal with this preview is to introduce and stabilize the ...

Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 Preview 2 is now available

June 14, 2022 Jun 14, 2022 06/14/22
Jordan Matthiesen
Today we release Visual Studio for Mac v17.3 Preview 2; focused on addressing top customer feedback from the Visual Studio for Mac v17.0 release. If you’re already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release, use the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu to update. If you aren’t using it yet, download it now: This blog ...

New Profiler feature in Visual Studio

June 9, 2022 Jun 9, 2022 06/9/22
Misty Hays
Introducing the new File I/O tool  We just launched a new profiling tool in Visual Studio 17.2 that helps you understand how you can optimize your File I/O operations to improve performance in your apps. If you’re trying to investigate and diagnose slow loading times, the new File IO tool can help you understand how the I/O operations ...

Improved doc management personalization

June 1, 2022 Jun 1, 2022 06/1/22
Grace Taylor
Visual Studio 2022 allows you to personalize your IDE so you can code the way you want. We’ve added new document management capabilities so navigating tabs and organizing your workspace has become more flexible. Take a look at our other Personalization capabilities, such as more flexible theming options, in one of our previous blog posts. ...

Visual Studio at Microsoft Build 2022

May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 05/26/22
Chris Hardy
This week we had Microsoft Build 2022 and there were some announcements made in Amanda Silver’s Theme session and multiple breakouts that are exciting for Visual Studio users, like you. We released the .NET Multi-platform App UI (a.k.a. .NET MAUI), announced Microsoft Dev Box, Azure Deployment Environments and Visual Studio on Arm64. With ...

Introducing the private preview of port tunneling in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core projects

May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 05/25/22
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 1.1 we added support to port tunneling (forwarding) to your ASP.NET Core web projects. Port tunneling enables connections between machines that cannot directly connect to each other. Port tunneling is also referred to as port forwarding, or web tunneling. Some cases where you may want to use port tunneling ...

All-In-One Search Is Getting Slicker

May 17, 2022 May 17, 2022 05/17/22
Denizhan Yigitbas
Since we first previewed a brand new way to search your code called the All-In-One Search with Visual Studio 17.2, we’ve been making updates to the UI to make it feel slicker and help you search your code faster! In 17.3, we’ve continued to build on the preview. You’ll find the following notable changes in the latest version...