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September 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 1 is now available!

September 30, 2021 Sep 30, 2021 09/30/21
Jordan Matthiesen
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 1 is now available! This is the first public 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. We owe a huge THANK YOU to our community of private preview...

Avoiding Memory Leaks in Visual Studio Editor Extensions

September 24, 2021 Sep 24, 2021 09/24/21
Christian Gunderman
Visual Studio extenders make VS even better by augmenting it with specialized tools, new languages, and workflows. As a Visual Studio extender, you can ensure your extension’s customers have the most performant, reliable experience possible by avoiding common sources of memory leaks, described within this blog post. Background In the early...

We want to make Help all you need

September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21
Jason Chlus
On the Visual Studio team, we aspire to deliver higher satisfaction across all areas of Visual Studio with greater awareness, connectivity, and productivity. With this in mind, we’ve been investigating the age-old “Help Menu”. This is just the start of a series of experiments we’re trying, and we want your (ahem) help to...

Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!

September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21
Grace Taylor
We are on a journey to make Visual Studio more flexible than ever, so that you can make the IDE work just the way you like it! One of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2022 is to build a personal, flexible IDE that you can make your own. We’ve teamed up with theme authors from the community to test a new tool that converts VS Code themes...

Discover quick actions for common tasks as you type, with IntelliCode

September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21
Peter Groenewegen
Have you ever found yourself wishing there was a built-in tool to accomplish a common task? You could not find the tool and started the work manually. Only after you have started the work, you discover there was a quick action to do the task. IntelliCode can now spot when you're performing a common task and recommend the right quick action...

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 is now available!

September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21
Mads Kristensen
We are excited to announce the fourth preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 4, there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog, we're highlighting a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4. We’d love for you to ...