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February 2022 - Visual Studio Blog

Line-staging (Interactive Staging)

February 17, 2022 Feb 17, 2022 02/17/22
Taysser Gherfal
Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right from the editor. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Jordan Matthiesen
It’s February, and time for another Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview release! Today we’re sharing Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6, which focuses on addressing top issues from the January 25th Preview 5 release as well as continuing the move of the IDE to native macOS UI. Preview 5 was a huge release for the product, debuting the IDE...

Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Shengyu Fu
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/...

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available!

February 15, 2022 Feb 15, 2022 02/15/22
Dominic Nahous
Today, Visual Studio 2022 17.1 graduates from preview and reaches general availability. Feedback from developers like you have helped us shape and refine Visual Studio 17.1 through its preview cycle and we’d like to thank you for your part in Visual Studio’s journey. In my last blog post for Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, I ...

Support ends for older versions of Visual Studio

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22
Paul Chapman
We want to keep you secure when using Visual Studio. If you’re using an older version of Visual Studio, we have several reminders about upcoming events in the Visual Studio support lifecycle. Visual Studio 2012: support ends on January 10, 2023 for the IDE and its associated products, runtimes, and components. We recommend users upgrade...