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January 2022 - Visual Studio Blog

Azure DevOps requires TLS 1.2 on all connections including Visual Studio

January 28, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 01/28/22
Ruben Rios
Starting Monday January 31st, Azure DevOps will no longer accept connections coming over TLS 1.0 and 1.1 due to security vulnerabilities in those protocols. Developers have increasingly become the target of hackers and these protocols have known security vulnerabilities not specific to Microsoft’s implementation. Going forward Azure ...

Code search in Visual Studio 2022 is about to get much faster

January 26, 2022 Jan 26, 2022 01/26/22
Denizhan Yigitbas
Visual Studio 2022 Find in Files is already more than 2x faster for 95% of searches compared to Visual Studio 2019. We wanted to make code search even better. I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 3 introduces indexed Find in Files to make your search experience even faster! To try out the performance improvements ...

Bringing Code Cleanup on Save To Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2

January 10, 2022 Jan 10, 2022 01/10/22
Denizhan Yigitbas
Starting in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, developers can now perform Code Cleanup automatically when a file is being saved! Code Cleanup automatically on Save is a new feature integrated into Visual Studio 2022 that can clean up your code file to make sure it is formatted correctly and that your coding style preferences are applied. Some ...

Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022

January 6, 2022 Jan 6, 2022 01/6/22
Taysser Gherfal
We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio, and we are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 17.1 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and check out the following new Git features.   Compare branches Comparing branches provides an overview of differences between two branches ...