Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio Spell Checker Preview Now Available

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Dante Gagne

We know developers like you take pride in your code! Many of the features in Visual Studio are designed to help you write the code you want. Visual Studio helps you ensure your code compiles and can even help with code styling. Now it can even make sure your spelling is accurate. Visual Studio 17.5 preview 3 introduces the first preview of the...

Write markdown without leaving Visual Studio

December 21, 2022 Dec 21, 2022 12/21/22

Dante Gagne

Markdown is a great solution when you want formatted code but don’t want to compromise easy readability. GitHub uses it for readme files, and we use it as our standard for Visual Studio documentation. If you’ve contributed to any open-source repo the odds are high that you’ve authored or edited at least one .md file in that repo ...

Adding new files just got a lot faster

December 20, 2022 Dec 20, 2022 12/20/22

Josh Stevens

Have you ever felt like the New Item Dialog slows you down when you want to quickly create an empty file or a simple C# class? Browsing through a list of templates is sometimes necessary, but wouldn’t it be great if Visual Studio could figure out which template you needed based only on the file name? If you answered yes, then you’ll ...

Sticky Scroll now in preview

December 15, 2022 Dec 15, 2022 12/15/22

Leah Tran

When working in code with long classes and methods that stretch beyond the vertical size of your screen, it can be difficult to keep track of which scope you’re working in. You may be editing a long method or exploring an unfamiliar codebase. In Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2, we introduced Sticky Scroll to help you be more productive ...

What’s new in Visual Studio productivity

December 6, 2022 Dec 6, 2022 12/6/22

Dante Gagne

We often hear feedback from users like you that request smaller quality-of-life improvements in Visual Studio. While we can’t address every piece of feedback right away, we appreciate the time you spend providing it and hope you continue to share your thoughts on how to make Visual Studio even better. In today’s blog post, we’d like to ...

Building a new JavaScript linting experience in Visual Studio

December 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 12/1/22

Maria Solano

Available today in the 17.4 public release, Visual Studio has revamped its ESLint support! The new linting experience includes: But the main purpose of this post is not to list all of the cool things that the new linting service provides, but to tell you a little bit about the story behind it. I joined Microsoft at the...

Visual Studio’s Azure Marketplace images now support Microsoft Dev Box

October 5, 2022 Oct 5, 2022 10/5/22

Ruben Rios

Over the last couple of years, we’ve expanded our Visual Studio VM image offerings for the Azure Marketplace. These images have proven to be popular not only for evaluating the latest Visual Studio releases, but also for jumpstarting developer environments in the cloud. In this post, we'll introduce new images optimized for running Visual ...

Now Introducing Arm64 Support for VS Extensions!

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22

Leslie Richardson

Back in June, we announced Arm64 Visual Studio 2022 application, the first version of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors. Now, we’re excited to announce the extensions you write, and use, are supported in Arm64 VS! Adding Arm64 support to your new or existing extension...

DataTable Visualizer Improvements

September 15, 2022 Sep 15, 2022 09/15/22

Harshada Hole

Your favorite DataTable visualizer has now got a makeover with all new improvements coming in 17.4 Preview 2. The DataTable visualizers will now support sorting, filtering, exporting, and theming like IEnumerable visualizer. The DataTable Visualizer allows you to view the contents of a DataTable, DataSet, DataView, or ...

VisualStudio.Extensibility: A New Way to Write Extensions

August 10, 2022 Aug 10, 2022 08/10/22

Leslie Richardson

Last year, we announced the first phase of a new extensibility model for Visual Studio. This new model will make extensions easier to write and more reliable along with additional benefits such as being able to install these extensions without restarting the IDE. Now, we’re excited to announce the second phase of the new extensibility ...

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