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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...

Try Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 1

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23
Marian Luparu
The first Preview for Visual Studio 2022 17.6 is now available! This release expands on the recently released 17.5 version of Visual Studio and aims at enhancing your productivity whether you’re a .NET developer, a game developer, and/or a C++ developer. Why should you try the latest preview? Because it’s like living in the future – ...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23
Anthony Cangialosi
We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 17.5 is now generally available. This release is full of updates that take friction out of your daily workflows making it easier for you stay in the zone while you code. Features like all-in-one search and intent-based suggestions help you move faster, while improved build and debug speeds ensure ...

Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21
John Miller
If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.

Student Spotlight: Outside the Fox thinking outside of the box

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20
Abdullah Hamed
By Noel Painter In 2018 two roommates began a Computer Graphics and Game Development degree at Charles University in Prague with no prior game development experience. They dove headfirst into the world of game development because their first assignment was to create a game, end-to-end, in only 6 months. As a part of this assignment the ...