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Let’s Co-Create! Your Voice Matters
We want to celebrate the suggestions you’ve made and the time you have invested in giving feedback to help build Visual Studio. We're thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.7, which began with Preview 1 on May 16th, is now officially out of Preview and generally available! The journey from Preview to today has been shaped by the insights and feedback of our community. Whether you've been with us since the beginning or are just joining now, we want to thank you for the suggestions you’ve made in this new release. Feedback from developers like you influences every release of Visual Studio. We want you ...
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 1 has arrived!
Hot on the heels of the General Availability of Visual Studio v17.7, (Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Now Available) we're thrilled to introduce the next set of enhancements that aim to streamline your workflow and boost your productivity. In this preview, we're bringing you features that can significantly improve your day-to-day tasks. From creating a PR directly within Visual Studio to a case-preserving search & replace across multiple files, we're making your tasks simpler and more efficient. We've also extended IntelliTest support for .NET 6+ and .NET Standard, making it easier to generate and manage unit ...
Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Now Available
We're delighted to announce the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 today. This release is a testament to our continued commitment to creating an enriched developer experience, powered by community feedback, and driven by the needs of the diverse developer landscape. From novice coders to experienced developers, this update packs a variety of productivity enhancements, performance improvements, and new features to streamline your coding journey. Throughout each of our Visual Studio releases, we have committed to enhancing Visual Studio across a set of enduring themes. Visual Studio 2...
Announcing the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code
Today we are thrilled to announce a preview of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. Remember when we launched the first preview of C# Dev Kit this past June? It delivers an editor-centric approach that elevates your C# development in Visual Studio Code with great features including a native Test Explorer, a dedicated Solution Explorer, and the incorporation of AI in code authoring, to name just a few. Today, we're delighted to present the initial preview of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. This new extension, Unity development in Visual Studio Code across Windows, macOS, and Linux. We i...
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Rock Your Debugging Game: Parallel Stack Window Tips You Need to Know!
In Visual Studio 2022 17.6 and 17.7 we added a ton of new features in Parallel Stack Window that can take your multithreaded debugging to the next level. But what can the Parallel Stack Window do for you? The answer is simple - it offers valuable insights into how your code functions in multithreaded or parallel or async environments. Understanding how your code behaves in a parallel environment is crucial as multithreaded programming becomes the norm. Luckily, the Parallel Stacks Window comes to the rescue by visually presenting the execution flow of multiple threads. And with the following productivity-boost...
Too many tabs open? No problem!
When you have lots of tabs open in Visual Studio, your horizontal screen resolution determines how many will fit the Tab Well. The remaining document tabs won’t be shown unless you enable multi-row tabs. But what if you don’t want to lose the coding space multi-row tabs take up, and still need an easier way to get an overview of all your open documents? Here’s how we might fix it and we need your help! You might already be familiar with the experience of hovering over tabs and using the mouse wheel to scroll through them in some browsers and other applications. The Custom Document Well extension brought th...
Introducing a powerful new Extension Manager
The Visual Studio Marketplace is filled with incredible extensions that let you customize your IDE, boost your productivity, and integrate with your other development tools. We’ve heard feedback from developers like you that it can be difficult to find important information like ratings and full-length descriptions when browsing the Marketplace with the Extension Manager. Starting with Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3, you can now enable a preview of our modernized Extension Manager that highlights extension details and helps you more easily discover the extensions you’ll love. We’re excited for you to try it and ...
Announcing the .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code
Last month, we released the first preview of C# Dev Kit, a lightweight, editor-first experience that augments your C# development in Visual Studio Code with a Solution Explorer, native Test Explorer, AI-powered code authoring, and more. Today, we’re excited to announce the first preview of the .NET MAUI extension, which, paired with C# Dev Kit, gives you the tools you need to develop your cross-platform .NET mobile and desktop apps with VS Code on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can try out the .NET MAUI extension today – let us know what you think! The .NET MAUI extension lets you develop and debug y...