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How Can We Improve Extensibility in Visual Studio?

December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

Leslie Richardson

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.

Where Are My Favorite Extensions in Visual Studio 2022?

November 15, 2021 Nov 15, 2021 11/15/21

Leslie Richardson

Want to continue using your favorite extensions in VS 2022 but aren’t sure where they are? Check out this post to learn how to find them in the Marketplace, outside the Marketplace, or as integrated VS features!

More flexible and inclusive ways to manage your documents

November 3, 2021 Nov 3, 2021 11/3/21

Grace Taylor

One of Visual Studio 2022’s key investments is in helping you personalize Visual Studio so that you can code the way you want. We’ve added new capabilities for added flexibility and inclusivity for working with your documents! Flexible workspace We’ve introduced a way for you to color file tabs by project, so that you don’t have ...

Join us November 8 for the Launch of Visual Studio 2022

October 12, 2021 Oct 12, 2021 10/12/21

Amanda Silver

On behalf of our entire team, I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2022 on November 8, and the immediate availability of the Visual Studio 2022 Release Candidate (RC) and Preview 5. We invite you to explore the latest capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 at our virtual launch event on November 8. Throughout the day, ...

The Future of Visual Studio Extensibility is Here!

September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Leslie Richardson

Visual Studio 2022 seeks to greatly improve your overall development experience, and we're moving forward with that journey in improving VS extension writing and usage today! We have several exciting extensibility updates that are either available now or on the horizon, so let's check them out!

New Improved Attach to Process Dialog Experience

September 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021 09/7/21

Harshada Hole

With Visual Studio 2022, we promise to bring new tooling to improve the inner loop productivity and debugging experience. We have added command-line details, app pool details, parent/child process tree view, and the Select running window from the desktop option in the attach to process dialog.

Boost your productivity with Productivity Power Tools Extensions in Visual Studio 2022!

August 31, 2021 Aug 31, 2021 08/31/21

Leslie Richardson

Need a set of extensions to help improve your productivity? We’re excited to announce that one of the most popular and anticipated sets of extensions is now available to download for VS 2022 today: Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2022!

It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?

August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

Misty Hays

We recently asked in an installer survey what you’d find valuable to see while you’re staring at the installer screen during updates/installations in Visual Studio 2022, and y’all said tips and tricks! Y’all also told us that you want to see tips in the IDE, too—in a Visual Studio start page! Receiving tips from a virtual ...

Debugging External Sources with Visual Studio

August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21

Harshada Hole

Have you ever needed to debug and step into a code of dependent NuGet or .NET libraries that do not build as part of your solution? Today, debugging through them is not so easy as debugging your projects that are part of your solution. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, we are adding a new "External Sources" node in the Solution Explo

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