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December 2022 - Visual Studio Blog

Write markdown without leaving Visual Studio

December 21, 2022 Dec 21, 2022 12/21/22
Dante Gagne
Markdown is a great solution when you want formatted code but don’t want to compromise easy readability. GitHub uses it for readme files, and we use it as our standard for Visual Studio documentation. If you’ve contributed to any open-source repo the odds are high that you’ve authored or edited at least one .md file in that repo ...

Sticky Scroll now in preview

December 15, 2022 Dec 15, 2022 12/15/22
Leah Tran
When working in code with long classes and methods that stretch beyond the vertical size of your screen, it can be difficult to keep track of which scope you’re working in. You may be editing a long method or exploring an unfamiliar codebase. In Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2, we introduced Sticky Scroll to help you be more productive ...

Dev tunnels in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core projects

December 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022 12/14/22
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In this blog post we will discuss the updates to the dev tunnels (port forwarding) experience in Visual Studio when working with ASP.NET Core projects. If you have read the previous posts here about these features, you’ll want to read this one as well because we have a lot of big changes in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2. You can download...

Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Anthony Cangialosi
I’m excited to share today we released Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2! Your feedback goes directly to the product team working to deliver you the best developer IDE. We welcome your feedback on Developer Community where we are always eager to hear your suggestions for new or existing features and learn about any bugs or issues via report ...

What’s new in Visual Studio productivity

December 6, 2022 Dec 6, 2022 12/6/22
Dante Gagne
We often hear feedback from users like you that request smaller quality-of-life improvements in Visual Studio. While we can’t address every piece of feedback right away, we appreciate the time you spend providing it and hope you continue to share your thoughts on how to make Visual Studio even better. In today’s blog post, we’d like to ...

Get your developer news

December 5, 2022 Dec 5, 2022 12/5/22
Mads Kristensen
Staying up to date with relevant news about your tech stack and virtual events is not always easy. There are lots of different sources and seeking out the information can be time-consuming. To help get you the information you need, we’re experimenting with bringing back Developer News inside Visual Studio – this time with some refreshing ...