Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1 is here!

May 17, 2023 May 17, 2023 05/17/23

Taysser Gherfal

Welcome to the Visual Studio Public Preview 1 of version 17.7! This exciting update offers a wide range of productivity enhancements tailored to the diverse needs of developers. Experience the cutting-edge improvements of Visual Studio and discover what lies ahead in this Preview release before it becomes widely available.

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.6 Now Available

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23

Marian Luparu

In the sprint to the BUILD 2023 conference, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Visual Studio version 17.6 today. This latest release delivers a range of powerful tools and features designed to empower you in crafting cutting-edge applications and experiences. The user-friendly environment, along with essential features like...

Get Ready for Visual Studio at Build 2023:
Join Tens of Thousands Online!

May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 05/15/23

Jim Harrer

Are you geared up for Build 2023? Microsoft's flagship developer conference is just a week away, and we have an incredible lineup of Visual Studio sessions that you simply cannot afford to miss!   This year, Microsoft Build goes hybrid, offering you the best of both worlds - virtual and in-person experiences in Seattle, Washington, ...

Surround selection experiment

May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23

Mads Kristensen

You want to quickly select some text and surround it with quotation marks. So, you select your text and hit the quotation mark key on your keyboard, only to find that the selected text now has been replaced by a single “. What you hoped would happen was that the selected text would be surrounded by an opening and closing quotation mark like ...

Visual Studio UI Refresh

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23

Kaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang, Dante Gagne

The Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems. We...

Web API development in Visual Studio 2022

May 1, 2023 May 1, 2023 05/1/23

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In Visual Studio 2022 one of the main scenarios for web developers is creating Web APIs with ASP.NET Core. In the latest preview of Visual Studio 2022, 17.6, we have added a number of updates to be more efficient when developing APIs. In this post we will go over a sample scenario of developing a new API from scratch and point out the new ...

Exploring JavaScript and TypeScript Development in Visual Studio

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Jiayan Chen

Over the last 12 months, we made many improvements to the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience in Visual Studio so that you can run both your front-end and back-end together within one click in one place. You might have seen the updates but in this blog post we will detail the new and improved features now available when working with...

Improving the Syntax Highlighting of JavaScript in Visual Studio

April 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023 04/21/23

Armando Aguirre

Syntax highlighting, aka colorization, is one of Visual Studio's essential features; it uses colors and styles to help guide our brains when reading code. Following this Developer Community suggestion, we decided to work on improving the JavaScript and TypeScript experience! Starting from 17.6 we improved existing colorization and expanded ...

Git Tooling Preview Features to Enhance Productivity

April 19, 2023 Apr 19, 2023 04/19/23

Jessie Houghton

We’re excited to share productivity and quality of life improvements available to the Git experience in Visual Studio version 17.6 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and watch our recent Visual Studio Toolbox Live session to check out the following new Git features. Improved Search for Related GitHub Issues and ...

Improving Visual Studio performance with the new Instrumentation Tool

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23

Nik Karpinsky

Summary With the release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 we are shipping our new and improved Instrumentation Tool in the Performance Profiler. Unlike the CPU Usage tool, the Instrumentation tool gives exact timing and call counts which can be super useful in spotting blocked time and average function time. To show off the tool let’s use...