Visual Studio Blog

How Can We Improve Extensibility in Visual Studio?

Leslie Richardson December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

We are working on exciting, major updates to how extensions are written and used in Visual Studio, but it’s a long road to completing them.  In the meantime, we’d love your ideas on what we can do in the more immediate future to improve how you use or write extensions.

Introducing the new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022

Mika Dumont December 1, 2021 Dec 1, 2021 12/1/21

With the release of Visual Studio 2022 you can now use the new Razor editor for local ASP.NET Core development with MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor. Download Visual Studio 2022 and make sure to update to 17.0.2 to get the latest Razor updates. Benefits of moving to a Razor Language Server Protocol We have been working for some time on a new...

Writing extensions just got easier

Mads Kristensen November 16, 2021 Nov 16, 2021 11/16/21

In collaboration with the open source community, we’re introducing a new toolkit for writing Visual Studio extensions. Extensions used to be difficult to write, but the new toolkit makes it easier than ever. The toolkit consists of brand-new tooling inside Visual Studio as well as new APIs to code against. It’s all included in the free ...

Where Are My Favorite Extensions in Visual Studio 2022?

Leslie Richardson November 15, 2021 Nov 15, 2021 11/15/21

Want to continue using your favorite extensions in VS 2022 but aren’t sure where they are? Check out this post to learn how to find them in the Marketplace, outside the Marketplace, or as integrated VS features!

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 3, and Upcoming Native M1 Processor Support

Jordan Matthiesen November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

This is an exciting post for us today with several announcements – First, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 3 is now available with support for the general availability release of .NET 6. Second, our team has been working on native support for the Apple M1 processor, and it will be available soon in a future preview. This post contains ...

Visual Studio 2022 now available

Amanda Silver November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

I am really excited to announce that we've reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022. Watch the keynote on YouTube.

More flexible and inclusive ways to manage your documents

Grace Taylor November 3, 2021 Nov 3, 2021 11/3/21

One of Visual Studio 2022’s key investments is in helping you personalize Visual Studio so that you can code the way you want. We’ve added new capabilities for added flexibility and inclusivity for working with your documents! Flexible workspace We’ve introduced a way for you to color file tabs by project, so that you don’t have ...

Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event Agenda

Andy Sterland November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21

We’re excited to host the Visual Studio 2022 launch event on November 8th. This release is unique: it brings together, the move to 64-bit, new capabilities, and improvements to reliability and performance across your entire developer workflow. The launch event is a celebration of that work, and all the work, our community, and extension

We’ve upgraded the UI in Visual Studio 2022

Emily Stoll October 18, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 10/18/21

In Visual Studio 2022, our team made a series of targeted investments to upgrade the Visual Studio user interface. We’re committed to spending time on the things that have meaningful impact to your product experience, so we grounded our work in real problems and suggestions surfaced by you and made sure to work with you every step of the way

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 2 is now available

Jordan Matthiesen October 13, 2021 Oct 13, 2021 10/13/21

One month ago, we released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac after an initial private preview. Today, we’re happy to share that Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 2 is now available. The focus of this preview is to support the new .NET 6 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) release on Intel-based Macs.