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March 2023 - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrated C++ Game Development

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23
Leslie Richardson
The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The show is available both on Learn and YouTube. Our latest episode features C++ program manager David Li, who shows how you can use the new Unreal Engine Integrations in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 to be more ...

GitHub Copilot chat for Visual Studio 2022

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
Mark Wilson-Thomas
GitHub Copilot has become a trusted AI-assisted pair programmer helping to auto-complete comments and code more productively. That’s just the beginning though! We’ve been working to evolve Copilot to move beyond code completion and provide enhanced AI assistance that you can access throughout your development lifecycle, whatever task you ...

Streamlining your Debugging process with Breakpoint Groups

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23
Harshada Hole
Have you ever had a situation when you are debugging a complex scenario with a huge list of breakpoints, and you find yourself scrolling and tapping in the breakpoints windows to disable/enable them individually and repetitively? Then the new Breakpoint Groups feature in Visual Studio may be the answer for you. This feature will allow you ...

Upgrading from IntelliCode custom team completions models to deep learning.

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23
Aaron Yim
TL;DR – A deep learning model will now help provide starred completions for custom methods in the IntelliSense list. All users of Visual Studio 2022 will receive this improvement automatically. With original IntelliCode, a custom trained model was previously useful for ranking custom methods in a user’s code. When IntelliCode first ...

Help us investigate a new Welcome Experience in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2

March 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 03/16/23
Grace Taylor
A central theme across Visual Studio releases is 'get to code' quickly. Over the years, we’ve tried many approaches to accelerate start up, project selection or creation, and restoration of previous state. In Visual Studio 2019 we created the modal 'start window' experience that optimized for getting to the primary action most developers ...

Improving the Spell Checker

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23
Dante Gagne
Welcome to our latest blog post about the spell checker feature in Visual Studio 17.6 preview 2! We're excited to share with you the latest improvements we've made to this feature, which was first introduced in the Visual Studio 17.5 preview releases for C#, C++, and markdown files. We've received an overwhelming amount of valuable feedback ...

Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 2 is now available

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
Marian Luparu
Preview 2 for Visual Studio 17.6 is now available! If you are a game developer, a mobile developer, or are interested in learning new tricks to better debug your code, check out this latest release. It’s as easy as upgrading your Preview channel in the Visual Studio installer. And if you haven’t activated your Preview channel for Visual...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Performance Enhancements

March 9, 2023 Mar 9, 2023 03/9/23
Nayana Srikanth
We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.5 offers a range of performance enhancements that significantly improve the speed and responsiveness of the product in the following main areas:  You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by ...

Developing Accessible Apps with Visual Studio

March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 03/8/23
Dante Gagne
When your application has an accessibility issue, it means that some users will find it harder or impossible to use your application. This means that a percentage of your users are having a bad experience or simply can’t use your product. The implications are far reaching, because many countries have laws governing accessibility in ...

Build Better Extensions with VisualStudio.Extensibility Preview 3!

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23
Maia Kelner
Today, we’re very excited to announce the third public preview of VisualStudio.Extensibility, our new SDK for creating extensions for Visual Studio! The VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK focuses on extensions that run out-of-process from the IDE for improved performance and reliability, and it features a modern API that has been streamlined ...