Visual Studio Blog

Speed up your .NET and C++ development with Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022

Dmitry Lyalin July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 we’d like to use this blog post to dive deeper into the brand-new Hot Reload experience which works for both managed .NET and newly supported native C++ apps. With Hot Reload our goal is to save you as many app restarts between edits as possible, making you more productive by ...

Join the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Private Preview

Jordan Matthiesen July 21, 2021 Jul 21, 2021 07/21/21

Today we’re inviting you to try out Visual Studio 2022 for Mac as we share our first private preview release. This is the first release of our .NET IDE with a refreshed, fully native macOS UI. We’d love for you to download it, try it out, and share your feedback to help us shape the next major release of Visual Studio for Mac. The ...

Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21

In this post we have introduced, and demonstrated, the new Web Forms Designer and Web Live Preview that is built into Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2. We are very excited to bring a new designer for Web Forms. We would love for you to try out this new designer experience and let us know how it’s working for you with your own projects and solution

Debug code with force run to cursor

Harshada Hole July 15, 2021 Jul 15, 2021 07/15/21

Starting Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 you can use "Force Run To Cursor". It is like "Run To Cursor," but you can keep your breakpoints and the debugger will skip over them until it reaches the line of code with the cursor. It will also skip any of the first-chance exceptions break conditions that may occur.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out!

Justin Johnson July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21

We're excited to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio 2022! Preview 1 was the first-ever 64-bit Visual Studio, delivering improved scalability. Starting with Preview 2, we’re focusing on delivering new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog we’...

.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance

Nik Karpinsky June 30, 2021 Jun 30, 2021 06/30/21

With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up ...

Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

John Miller June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21

If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available!

Justin Johnson June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21

We're excited to announce that the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022 is ready to install! This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio with your feedback.

Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions

Mark Wilson-Thomas June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21

In Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 you can automatically complete larger chunks of code, up to a whole line at a time; download the preview now.