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July 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

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

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

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

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

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out!

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