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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters
Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feed...
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Test tools for .NET and cross-platform apps
Visual Studio 2022 brings better test tools to your everyday development with Show in Test Explorer, Remote Testing, Test audio cues, Playwright, and more!
We’re upgrading Visual Studio’s feedback!Â
Visual Studio is a customer driven tool, our team is dedicated to exploring and learning what challenges you may be facing so we can help. To provide the highest quality of feedback we are upgrading our system, which means older versions of Visual Studio will no longer be compatible to provide feedback. If you want to continue to submit feedback, please upgrade to 16.7 or any LTSC service release after April 2021. Â We strive to have a transparent and collaborative relationship with our users to offer the best developer experience inside and out of Visual Studio. We encourage users to provide feedback on o...
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 4
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 4 release is here, and continues our move of the IDE to fully native macOS UI, fixes many top issues, and introduces new experiences for laying out your windows and searching your source. You can read all about the latest changes in the release notes. Get the latest release using the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu, or download it now: If you aren’t familiar with it, Visual Studio for Mac is our IDE for .NET developers building apps for the web and cloud using ASP.NET Core; mobile using .NET or Xamarin; and games using Unity. You can use the Community Editio...
What’s new in .NET Productivity with Visual Studio 2022
With the release of Visual Studio 2022 the Roslyn team continues to enhance your .NET developer productivity with the latest tooling improvements. In this post I’ll cover the following .NET productivity enhancements: Navigation and code exploration Navigating and exploring code is an integral part of developer productivity. In Visual Studio 2022 we now surface embedded source and Source Link as part of Go To Definition. This allows you to navigate to original source files that declare the target symbol that isn't in your current solution. Place your cursor on a symbol and pres...
Become a master at Git and Open SourceÂ
Have you ever wondered how to manage your code better but never had the time to learn about Git and version control? Maybe you are the only one working on your code and thought that Git is only good for collaboration? Are you someone who has been working on proprietary code and has not had a chance to learn from or contribute to open source repositories? If you can relate to any of these then consider signing up for the Git & open source Learning Series and start utilizing Git and Visual Studio to their full potential.  Sign up for the Git & open source Learning Series  In this learning ser...
VS 2022 Launch Recap: Extensibility
The recent Visual Studio 2022 Launch event was jam-packed with content, and that included updates on extensibility! Check out the VS 2022 Launch videos on extensibility that you may have missed!
How Can We Improve Extensibility in Visual Studio?
We are working on exciting, major updates to how extensions are written and used in Visual Studio, but it’s a long road to completing them.  In the meantime, we’d love your ideas on what we can do in the more immediate future to improve how you use or write extensions.
Introducing the new Razor editor in Visual Studio 2022
With the release of Visual Studio 2022 you can now use the new Razor editor for local ASP.NET Core development with MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor. Download Visual Studio 2022 and make sure to update to 17.0.2 to get the latest Razor updates. Benefits of moving to a Razor Language Server Protocol We have been working for some time on a new Razor editor for ASP.NET Core projects based on a Language Server Protocol (LSP). The Language Server Protocol (LSP), is an open-source protocol that defines a standard way for an editor or IDE to enable features. The LSP model has enabled us to add significant new functiona...
Writing extensions just got easier
In collaboration with the open source community, we’re introducing a new toolkit for writing Visual Studio extensions. Extensions used to be difficult to write, but the new toolkit makes it easier than ever. The toolkit consists of brand-new tooling inside Visual Studio as well as new APIs to code against. It’s all included in the free Extensibility Essentials extension. The community of Visual extenders are in a unique position to help create the tooling inside Visual Studio that they themselves would like to use. This toolkit is made by the community – for the community. Getting started The best way to...