Visual Studio Blog

Building a new JavaScript linting experience in Visual Studio

December 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 12/1/22

Maria Solano

Available today in the 17.4 public release, Visual Studio has revamped its ESLint support! The new linting experience includes:  But the main purpose of this post is not to list all of the cool things that the new linting service provides, but to tell you a little bit about the story behind it. I joined Microsoft at the...

Removing out-of-support components from your Visual Studio installations

November 29, 2022 Nov 29, 2022 11/29/22

Christine Ruana

Visual Studio is a rich IDE that provides an abundant collection of tools and functionality for developers to use in every stage of software development. As we all know, technologies change over time, some faster than others; consequently, certain components that are initially included with Visual Studio may go out of support faster than the ...

Improve your productivity with Web Live Preview and Telerik

November 23, 2022 Nov 23, 2022 11/23/22

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

This post will concentrate on everything new, cool, trendy, and useful around the integrated Web Live Preview tool in Visual Studio 2022. More than 17 years ago, when I started my dev career with ASP.NET Web Forms as part of an ASP.NET development team, my first steps commenced out as many of us with the superior assistance of the Visual ...

.NET MAUI is now available in Visual Studio for Mac 17.4

November 22, 2022 Nov 22, 2022 11/22/22

Bilge Zeren Aksu

I am excited to share the news that .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is now available in Visual Studio for Mac!  .NET MAUI tooling shipped in the 17.4 preview Visual Studio for Mac release in August, and then on November 8th we shipped the general availability of .NET MAUI tooling in the 17.4 stable release.   This release has also ...

Visual Studio 2022 Performance Enhancements 17.4

November 21, 2022 Nov 21, 2022 11/21/22

Nayana Srikanth

Every new Visual Studio release includes new performance improvements that make the product faster and more responsive. 17.4 has some significant improvements across common scenarios like  Find in Files, Branch switching, configuration changes, unit testing, C++ indexing and file saving. We use product telemetry from our GA releases to set ...

Enable Group Policy Settings with Visual Studio Administrative Templates (ADMX)

November 17, 2022 Nov 17, 2022 11/17/22

Edward Skrod, Christine Ruana

IT Administrators often want to control, via group policy, certain aspects of Visual Studio behavior to achieve consistency, compliance, and compatibility across their organizations. One challenge has been that there was no easy way to discover what global policies exist for Visual Studio. Because there was no centralized repository that ...

Public preview of dev tunnels in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core projects

November 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022 11/15/22

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In a previous blog post we introduced the private preview for port forwarding in Visual Studio, this support has now been renamed to “dev tunnels” and is now in public preview. The main difference between the private preview and the public preview is that you no longer need to sign-up, and be approved, to access dev tunnels. Getting ...

Multi-repository Support Released!

November 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022 11/14/22

Jessie Houghton

As one of our most highly request features with Developer Community, we are so happy to announce the release of multi-repository support in Visual Studio 2022. Support for multiple repositories means you can have up to 10 active Git repositories at once. This allows you to work with a solution that spans more than one repository, enabling git ...

Introducing Visual Studio Rollback!

November 10, 2022 Nov 10, 2022 11/10/22

Sayyeda Mussa

Visual Studio IDE is a feature-rich program that supports many aspects of software development. Our customers can use VS to edit, debug, and build code, and then publish an app. The IDE also provides frequent updates to add additional features, make reliability improvements, and address security vulnerabilities, and we encourage customers to ...

Deploy Visual Studio updates to devices enrolled in Windows Update for Business

November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22

Christine Ruana

Starting in November 2022, IT Administrators can now deploy Visual Studio administrator security updates throughout their organization to cloud connected devices that are configured to use Windows Update for Business (WUfB) and are managed by mobile device management solutions such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager (also known as Intune). This ...