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Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate 2

May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 05/11/22

Jordan M

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available! In this release, we’ve focused on addressing top reported issues from the first release candidate. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling native ...

Just-in-time refactoring made even easier with IntelliCode auto suggested code for C#

May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 05/11/22

Peter G

Have you ever wondered if there was a tool to help you with routine code tasks like writing common constructors or inserting similar code to a few different spots? Maybe you even know some code actions or refactorings that can help you. But at the time you could have used the code action, you typed the change instead, because you remembered ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.2 is now available!

May 10, 2022 May 10, 2022 05/10/22

Tim H

Today we are pleased to release Visual Studio 2022 17.2 as generally available. We want to acknowledge and thank all developers like you that continue to provide us valuable feedback on your experiences using Visual Studio 2022 for helping shape the product and be a part of our release! This release brings continued improvements to the ...

Update all Visual Studio installations with a single click!

May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 05/9/22

Sayyeda Mussa

We are continuously improving the Visual Studio update experience so that it’s as easy and effortless as possible. Many of you take advantage of the side-by-side support for Visual Studio and have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed simultaneously. In 17.3 Preview 1, we’ve made it easier to update all of your side-by-side ...

Visual Studio on an ultra-wide monitor

May 5, 2022 May 5, 2022 05/5/22

Mads K

A growing number of Visual Studio customers use ultra-wide monitors today. Ultra-wide means wider than a traditional 16:9 widescreen display – usually 3440x1440 or larger resolution. They seem to be gaining popularity among developers and I’m curious how Visual Studio can use all this extra space. So, I asked people on Twitter to send me ...

Case Study: Double performance in under 30 minutes

May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 05/2/22

Nik K

Summary Recently I was converting some decompression code to C# so that we could use it cross platform and to aid in our team’s effort to migrate our new analysis process to .NET 6. After I got the initial implementation done with the simplest, cleanest code that I could, I proceeded to profile it to make sure I wasn’t doing anything ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate

April 26, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 04/26/22

Jordan M, Dominic N

On behalf of our whole team, I’m beyond excited to announce that the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate (RC) is ready for you to download now and includes a go-live license that allows you to develop in production environments. A faster, more fluid IDE for everyone This release swaps out the front-end UI of the IDE ...

View .NET collections with the new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer

April 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 04/21/22

Harshada H

While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object can be tedious and difficult. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a customized tabular view.  The IEnumerable visualizer will display ...

Introducing a New Way to Search Your Code and Visual Studio Features

April 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 04/20/22

Denizhan Y

All developers search within their code, in one way or another. Some might use code search to explore their code and understand how some components work; others might use code search to get to a very specific location they have in mind. Either way, as a developer yourself, sometimes this process of searching and finding a location might be ...

Supercharge your Git experience in VS

April 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22

Taysser G

Have you experienced delays when viewing your Git repository or branch history in Visual Studio? Have you run a network command like force-push and had to wait for the operation to complete? Your Git repository may be having performance issues due to its large size. We are happy to integrate a relatively new Git feature called the commit graph...