Differentiating Visual Studio instances

August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22
Mads Kristensen
When you have multiple instances of Visual Studio open at the same time, it can be tricky to tell them apart. Especially if you’re working on different branches of the same solution, which makes them look almost identical. What if each instance could have a unique color so you could instantly tell them apart? Would you use it? The ...

IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer Improvements

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22
Harshada Hole
In Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 3, we added a few highly requested improvements in IEnumerable visualizer like Filtering, Theming, and CSV export to enhance the visualizer experience further. The .NET IEnumerable debugger visualizer is one of our most loved debugging features in recent times. This was a highly requested feature by developers ...

Analysis Services and Reporting Services extensions for Visual Studio 2022 are here!

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22
Leslie Richardson
We’re happy to announce the popular and long-awaited Analysis Services, RDLC Report Designer, and Reporting Services extensions are available for Visual Studio 2022!  Here’s how these Microsoft extensions for SQL Server can further enhance your business intelligence solution development environment. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) ...

VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Git Branch Switching

July 11, 2022 Jul 11, 2022 07/11/22
Taysser Gherfal
Have you experienced delays when switching between your Git branches in Visual Studio? Did you have to wait for your solution and projects to reload after switching between branches in a Git repository? We are happy to announce performance enhancements to the branch switching experience in Visual Studio 2022. To benefit from the latest ...

Sneak Peek and Edit Your Code While You Search

June 27, 2022 Jun 27, 2022 06/27/22
Denizhan Yigitbas
Throughout Visual Studio 2022 Previews, we've been releasing a series of changes to the way you go about searching code in the IDE using the new All-In-One Search: Now, in 17.3 Preview 2, we’re releasing a new feature to the new All-In-One Search to help you search and interact with code more efficiently: Contextual Code ...

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 ...