On behalf of our entire team, I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2022 on November 8, and the immediate availability of the Visual Studio 2022 Release Candidate (RC) and Preview 5. We invite you to explore the latest capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 at our virtual launch event on November 8. Throughout the day, you can learn from some special guest speakers, talk back to the Visual Studio team, and even download exclusive digital swag.
Join us at our virtual event
Our free, online launch event kicks off at 8:30 AM Pacific Time on November 8 with a keynote from Scott Hanselman, the Visual Studio product team, and myself (add to calendar). We’ve scheduled breakout sessions by technology area, so that you can learn about the most significant changes in your space. There are also a lot of Tips & Tricks talks focusing on all the new capabilities and how to get the most out of Visual Studio 2022. There’s also a live Q&A throughout, so you’ll be able to ask the team directly if you have questions. And that’s not all—our launch party will also have downloadable Visual Studio 2022 digital swag for you.
Download Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview 5
By installing the RC release version of Visual Studio 2022, you can now prepare for the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2022. The GA version of Visual Studio 2022 is fully supported by Microsoft. Both RC and GA versions come with a go-live license, for production use.
You should use the RC release if you wish to use Visual Studio to build production-ready apps and projects and receive less frequent feature updates. At launch, the RC version will update to GA version.
You should use the Preview 5 release if you wish to try out the latest features of Visual Studio 2022. At launch, the Preview 5 version will update to Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 1 and will contain the latest features the team is working on.
If you have a license to the Enterprise or Professional edition and have been using that edition, you can simply update to Preview 5 or RC and sign in with your subscription user account. If you’re eligible to use Community edition (terms), then you can also update to Preview 5 or RC. If you don’t have a license or are not able to use Community edition, then there are trials available for you try out Visual Studio 2022.
Take part!
You can install both the RC and Preview 5 release side by side with Visual Studio 2019. We’re in the home stretch now, and we need your help making Visual Studio 2022 the best developer experience for you. We encourage you to download Visual Studio 2022 and use it just like you would use Visual Studio 2019. We appreciate your time providing feedback via Developer Community, reporting a problem, and taking part in surveys.
I want to completely remove vs2019 because it’s on a small SSD and only use vs2022. What is the best way? Will the Uninstall under the More button in Visual Studio Install remove ALL checked items?
When will there be Azure vm images with VS 2022?
This is an excellent question. I have several pipelines in Azure DevOps and I want to know when the hosted build images will have support for vs 2022
When using one of those aka.ms short URLs for the installers, which version do I get? The GA channel or Preview?
Also, when I want to create my offline installation, will anything change with this version of VS?
If I install Visual Studio 2022 RC, a lot of stuff (filenames, shortcuts) carries the suffix “RC”. Is this gonna disappear without reinstalling once GA is available? Does the update automatically changes, for example Visual Studio 2022 RC to Visual Studio 2022?
Guys the AI autocompletion is terrific! It’s guessing right 90% of the time, basically I am spending more time pressing TAB then writing the code lol
Best feature ever.
This is quite disappointing to hear. I try to use VS2022 daily and have to restart it 5+ times per day because of build freezes and IntelliSense problems. Deleting .vs folder also became a routine because that’s the only thing that fixes IntelliSense.
Joy, more half finished / half baked features full of bugs !
Thank u so much Amanda and VS team💕
So many updates, also 2022 version is coming but the problem with transparenscy of popup tips in code editor when VS running on localization different from English still exists.
MS inform that it has beed fixed in on of vs2019 but the problem stil moved to vs2022…
I am using Russian Lang in VS and facing the problem with the popup tips of code editor. On the English it is not repeated.
Any updates on when and if extensions on the marketplace will allow both VS19 and VS22 builds before the release?