We’re excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview 1 – the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio. This update focuses on providing fantastic developer experiences for working with .NET 9 projects and new AI productivity features, along with continues improvements all-around. Download the preview and see the full list of enhancements in the release notes.

.NET 9 + Aspire

.NET 9 elevates cloud-native and intelligent app development, focusing on productivity enhancements, streamlined deployments, and accelerated AI integration, ensuring superior performance for developers across various applications. And Visual Studio 17.12 fully supports .NET 9 development making it easy for you to take full advantage of all the improvements it has to offer.

Additionally, you’ll find updates to features around the IDE that make working with .NET and ASP.NET more delightful than ever.

AI productivity

With our ongoing commitment to radically increase developer productivity using AI, this update brings new improvements to GitHub Copilot that are unique to Visual Studio. By providing more context from the IDE, you’ll find more accurate suggestions using a more comprehensive knowledge of your solution. Combine that extra context with more fine-tuned code generation and you’ll find this update elevates your coding experience significantly.

We hope you enjoy this preview of Visual Studio, and we look forward to hearing what you think. You can share feedback with us via Developer Community, by reporting issues via report a problem and share your suggestions for new features or improvements to existing ones.

You can download the preview from our website or update it from within the IDE. Please note that you should not use this preview in production environments, and some extensions or workloads may not be compatible with it.

Thank you for using Visual Studio and happy coding!