Visual Studio 2022

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...

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...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Debug Threads & Tasks with Parallel Stacks

April 6, 2023 Apr 6, 2023 04/6/23

Leslie Richardson

The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling in and out of Visual Studio. Our latest episodes of VS Toolbox (available both on Learn and YouTube) feature Mark Downie and Ramkumar Ramesh from the Visual Studio Diagnostics team. They demonstrate how you can use the Threads and Tasks views ...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrated C++ Game Development

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23

Leslie Richardson

The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The show is available both on Learn and YouTube. Our latest episode features C++ program manager David Li, who shows how you can use the new Unreal Engine Integrations in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 to be more ...

Streamlining your Debugging process with Breakpoint Groups

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23

Harshada Hole

Have you ever had a situation when you are debugging a complex scenario with a huge list of breakpoints, and you find yourself scrolling and tapping in the breakpoints windows to disable/enable them individually and repetitively? Then the new Breakpoint Groups feature in Visual Studio may be the answer for you. This feature will allow you ...

Improving the Spell Checker

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23

Dante Gagne

Welcome to our latest blog post about the spell checker feature in Visual Studio 17.6 preview 2! We're excited to share with you the latest improvements we've made to this feature, which was first introduced in the Visual Studio 17.5 preview releases for C#, C++, and markdown files. We've received an overwhelming amount of valuable feedback ...

Developing Accessible Apps with Visual Studio

March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 03/8/23

Dante Gagne

When your application has an accessibility issue, it means that some users will find it harder or impossible to use your application. This means that a percentage of your users are having a bad experience or simply can’t use your product. The implications are far reaching, because many countries have laws governing accessibility in ...

Build Better Extensions with VisualStudio.Extensibility Preview 3!

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23

Maia Kelner

Today, we’re very excited to announce the third public preview of VisualStudio.Extensibility, our new SDK for creating extensions for Visual Studio! The VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK focuses on extensions that run out-of-process from the IDE for improved performance and reliability, and it features a modern API that has been streamlined ...

Try Visual Studio 2022 v17.6 Preview 1

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Marian Luparu

The first Preview for Visual Studio 2022 17.6 is now available! This release expands on the recently released 17.5 version of Visual Studio and aims at enhancing your productivity whether you’re a .NET developer, a game developer, and/or a C++ developer. Why should you try the latest preview? Because it’s like living in the future – ...