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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 is now available!

Mads Kristensen September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

We are excited to announce the fourth preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 4, there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog, we're highlighting a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4. We’d love for you to ...

The Future of Visual Studio Extensibility is Here!

Leslie Richardson September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Visual Studio 2022 seeks to greatly improve your overall development experience, and we're moving forward with that journey in improving VS extension writing and usage today! We have several exciting extensibility updates that are either available now or on the horizon, so let's check them out!

New Improved Attach to Process Dialog Experience

Harshada Hole September 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021 09/7/21

With Visual Studio 2022, we promise to bring new tooling to improve the inner loop productivity and debugging experience.
We have added command-line details, app pool details, parent/child process tree view, and the Select running window from the desktop option in the attach to process dialog.

Boost your productivity with Productivity Power Tools Extensions in Visual Studio 2022!

Leslie Richardson August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Need a set of extensions to help improve your productivity? We’re excited to announce that one of the most popular and anticipated sets of extensions is now available to download for VS 2022 today: Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2022!

Optimizing toolbars for your workflow

Mads Kristensen August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. I love Visual Studio. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my various development workflows—I personalized it. Just like I would with a home in ...

It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?

Misty Hays August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

We recently asked in an installer survey what you’d find valuable to see while you’re staring at the installer screen during updates/installations in Visual Studio 2022, and y’all said tips and tricks! Y’all also told us that you want to see tips in the IDE, too—in a Visual Studio start page! Receiving tips from a virtual ...

Revamped Project Properties UI

McKenna Barlow August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

In Visual Studio 2022 we are improving your experiences around navigating and modifying your project's properties. The world of .NET is in a very different place than it was a few years ago. With a growing diverse user-base and increasingly cross-platform projects, we decided that the Visual Studio project properties were due for a much-needed...

Flexible theming capabilities for Visual Studio

Grace Taylor August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

If you're like me, maybe you feel like customizing Visual Studio so that your workflow suits your habits in just the right way. Here are a few updates in Visual Studio 2022 that can help with that! We’ve introduced the ability to sync your Visual Studio theme with your Windows theme so that reading can become easier depending on the amount ...

Debugging External Sources with Visual Studio

Harshada Hole August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Have you ever needed to debug and step into a code of dependent NuGet or .NET libraries that do not build as part of your solution? Today, debugging through them is not so easy as debugging your projects that are part of your solution. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, we are adding a new "External Sources" node in the Solution Explo