Visual Studio 2022 17.3 is now available!

Chris Hardy

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.3 has been released and is now generally available. At Microsoft, we thrive on getting feedback and experiences from those using Visual Studio and continually work to improve the product based on this feedback. Visual Studio 2022 17.3 comes with new features such as .NET MAUI GA tooling, Azure Container Apps and more as you’ll see below.

17.3 also adds new features as suggested in Developer Community by you! Here’s a list of the items that we are shipping as part of this release and love how we’re adding new functionality based off these suggestions:

 

.NET Multi-platform App UI

Today we are excited to announce that .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) has graduated from preview in Visual Studio and is now available in the release channel of Visual Studio 2022 on Windows. You now have full access in the stable product to productivity features that will help you build quicker and ship your .NET client apps more efficiently to Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single codebase.

.NET MAUI Podcast app screenshot inside Visual Studio

We’ve built tools to help you develop your .NET MAUI apps without slowing you down. Hot Reload, Live Visual Tree and XAML Live Preview speed up your development time by allowing you to apply code changes and see them immediately. With XAML Hot Reload you can make changes to your UI and see them in the running app right away. With .NET Hot Reload you can make changes to your code, save, and see those changes as well.

Read more about all the tooling improvements for .NET MAUI and how to get started on the .NET Team blog.

 

Develop apps for Microsoft Teams

Using Microsoft Teams as a platform for building apps, you can extend Teams for your app solutions. Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio makes it simple to get started with apps that embed UI in a tab, notify a channel with a customized message, trigger a task from a chat command, and more.

Teams Toolkit in VS

Quickly build a Teams app that can post a notification to a chat or channel from an ASP.NET Web API or Azure Function trigger using the Microsoft Teams App project template and selecting the Notification Bot application type. The Command Bot option makes it simple to build an app that can respond to chat commands and display a customized message in a chat or channel. Teams Toolkit helps automatically configure Bot Framework with your Teams app – create the project, use Teams Toolkit to configure the dependencies, and Start Debugging (F5) to see the app running in a Teams web client.

If you’re ready to give it a try or learn more, check out our walk-through on building a notification bot with Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio.

C++ Improvements

The C++ team has addressed some of your top asks in 17.3.  Your feedback that we should limit CPU use during C++ builds led to a new feature to enable low priority builds in Visual Studio. Based on your feedback we also introduced new static analysis checks on std::optional to guard against undefined behaviors.

We have also been working hard on performance enhancements for C++ developers. In 17.3 you will find that Visual Studio indexes and colorizes your C++ code faster than ever. Amongst the improvements seen is a 2X speed improvement in indexing a new C++ Unreal Engine 5 solution.

Chart of Unreal Engine indexing performance improvements

For cross platform focused C++ developers, you will find your remote SSH target is now available in the Visual Studio integrated terminal. In the upper left corner of the integrated terminal, you can click on the SSH connection selected and see the profile dropdown entries available that show connections enumerated from your Connection Manager.

Screenshot of SSH dropdown in Integrated Terminal

For C++ developers targeting embedded devices you will find a new serial monitor and Zephyr RTOS support in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio serial monitor screenshot

Azure Container Apps

Visual Studio now supports deploying to Azure Container Apps, either on demand (right-click > Publish) or by setting up CICD via GitHub Actions.

Azure Container Apps enables you to run microservices and containerized applications on a serverless platform. With Container Apps, you enjoy the benefits of running containers while leaving behind the concerns of manually configuring cloud infrastructure and complex container orchestrators.

Visual Studio will help you choose existing Azure resources, or create new ones to be used to deploy your app. It will also build the container image using the Dockerfile in the project, push this image to ACR, and finally deploy the new image to the container app selected.

To get started, right-click on your project node in Solution Explorer and select Publish. Pick Azure as the deployment target and Azure Container Apps will be one of the options available to you.

 

Live Unit Testing

Live Unit Testing now scales better for larger solutions by making the builds scoped to only what is needed and building projects in parallel. Other improvements to the Live Unit Testing build mechanism provide for more reliable builds and support for a wider variety of solutions. It is now easier to get your solution set up for live unit testing with the introduction of a setup wizard to configure Live Unit Testing in just a few steps. Other improvements include the ability to cancel redundant test runs and making it easier to understand progress by surfacing operations and errors in the Live Unit Testing Window status bar.

To get started, navigate to Test > Live Unit Testing > Start in Visual Studio.

To learn more, visit aka.ms/NewLiveUnitTesting

What’s New?

Take a look at What’s New in Visual Studio under Help > What’s New or by updating Visual Studio. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/whats-new-vs/

What's New in Visual Studio

 

Git Line-staging

Line-staging is now supported with the ability to stage specific lines and/or chunks of code right from the editor and the diff view. To get started, stage one of your recent changes by selecting the corresponding color margin and utilizing the Peek Difference UI to stage your change.Read our blog post to learn more and share your feedback.

 

Show Tabs in Multiple Rows

We’ve added the capability to wrap tabs into multiple rows based on community request, so you can have more horizontal tabs open at a time, this was a top Developer Community feedback suggestion and you can find more details on the blog post here.

Show tabs in multiple rows - Visual Studio Personalization

 

IEnumerable Visualizer

Take a look at a few highly requested improvements in IEnumerable visualizer like Filtering, Theming, and CSV export. You can read more about these improvements on our blog here.

 

Reopen Closed Documents

You can now re-open the last tab you closed by right-clicking on a tab, using the Ctrl+K, Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut, or navigating to the menu item under Window > Restore Closed Tab.

Restore recently closed docs

 

Next up, Visual Studio 2022 17.4

We are also releasing the first preview of our next release, Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 1. Version 17.4 will be the first version of Visual Studio generally available as a native Arm64 application. It will also be the third long term servicing channel (LTSC) version supported for 18 months from its release. Feedback during our preview cycle is important to meeting your high expectations at release.

We will follow up soon with a post covering the features in this preview, for now please check the preview release notes. Remember that you can install the preview release of Visual Studio side-by-side with the current GA release.

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  • Jason Baginski 6

    Not fun. Updated to 17.3. Rebooted. First thing I get is “Operation failed. No projects supported by NuGet in the solution” when I go to Manage NuGet Packages for Solution. When I right click any of the individual projects in my solutions I get nothing. Last time I used the feature was this morning for Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v5.0.0 with VS 17.2.whateverwasthelatestasofthismorning Apparently a problem with 17.3 Preview 5 I added a reply with logs. As a fyi, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\NuGet\NuGet.Versioning.dll is version 6.3.0.131 dated when VS v17.3 updated(I went back and followed all the versions of VS that this -exact-same-bug- has cropped up)

    • Carl Kneibert 3

      I am also having the same issue that started with the 17.3 upgrade.

      • Jason Baginski 1

        If you could please, go upvote the VS feedback and do a recording for them? The more info they have hopefully the faster they’ll fix it. Considering this appears to be a reoccurring regression, hopefully they get it fixed and leave enough comments so it doesn’t get broken again.

    • Marshall Rosenstein 2

      I had this problem with the preview and thought it would be corrected before the release. I guess not.

    • Jason Baginski 2

      Apparently it’s some issue during upgrade with Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022 extension. Uninstalling and reinstalling the extension gets NuGet to work properly.

      • Daniel Williams 1

        I cannot even run Visual Studio to look at extensions! VS says install is in progress, but I cannot rollback the install or install the update because of the message “The dependent package of “… Concord..” cannot be found. Are we the only people on the planet having issues with this 17.3? A co-worker lost the ability to type in VS with this upgrade, but a reboot helped. No reboots are helping so far.
        If only someone at Microsoft had tested this or read these comments… Such failures are rare, but really need rapid response. I have work to do!

        • designerferg 2

          You aren’t the only one. Also getting the concord dependency error. Cant continue the upgrade or even cancel the install. Yay productivity?

          edit: for anyone else caught in this deathloop, i was able to fix the issue by deleting the offending folders from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages

          had to run installer, let it complain, delete folder, repeat. finally got it back to downloading.

          This is why I make sure to always have at least two working versions at all times. If one does this, I can still get work done.

      • Peter Viau 0

        Uninstalling and reinstalling Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022 extension worked for me!

        • Jason Baginski 0

          It worked for me too..up until I just rebooted for a windows update. Now I’m right back to where I was. *grr*. Going to the VS issue link I provided won’t help anymore because they closed the issue as a “duplicate” of another one(that was created 3 days later). The one that’s 3 days newer is ALSO closed pointing to the ORIGINAL that’s closed, so there’s no more support there. Very frustrating experience. We try and report issues, we come up with possible solutions, and these things just get shut down and the chain you are supposed to follow is really an endless loop.

          If you reboot and find it’s not working again. Add an environment value of NUGET_SOLUTION_CACHE_INITIALIZATION as 0

      • Oswaldo Rubio 0

        Amazing! It worked for me. Thanks a lot man.

    • Valerio Bamberga 0

      Same here

    • Anderson A. Barreto Furlan 1

      I faced the same issue after upgrading from version 17.2.7 to 17.3.0 It only worked ok after the downgrade.

    • Darwin Arraiz 1

      Looks like it is a conflict with Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project 2022 extension, if you are using that extension you can do the following:

      1. Select the installer project.
      2. Go to menu Project and click on Unload project.
      3. Go to menu Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for Solution… and it must work now.

      When you need to build the Installer just right click over it and choose Load Project, after that unload it again.

      It is not a long-term solution but will allow you to move forward while wait for the fix.

      Best regards

  • Sean Terry 0

    I take it from this announcement that running on ARM did not make it into the final release?

    • Mark DownieMicrosoft employee 1

      Hi Sean,

      Our original plan was to keep Arm64 in the preview channel to help ensure the quality you expect. We plan to add new workloads, components and experiences into preview channel as we move toward our first GA release later this calendar year.

      Please vote on the items we have “Under Review” to help us prioritize the right work.

      Thanks
      Mark

      • Sean Terry 0

        Your announcement on June 14 did not indicate that plan – it read like 17.3 would run on Arm.

        I’m fairly well invested in the Mac+JetBrains environment for .NET development at this point, so I don’t really have a dog in the hunt anymore.

  • Peyman M. 0

    Will there be a native ARM64 SQL Server Express LocalDB?

  • Roberto Mencia Franco 7

    The best thing about this upgrade is the huge list of bugs that are supposed to be fixed fixed in this release.
    There are still a huge number of bugs pending to be fixed for VS2022 that are making our work very difficult. Those are the updates I would like to see fixed, instead of anything new features. The new functionality is really not that important if the basics don’t work.

    • Faheem Ahmad 0

      Yes agree they should also add vs code like ui and speed

    • Chris Myrick 2

      Agreed. The new features are much less important than getting existing work done. It’s starting to feel bloated again like it did before someone created Visual Studio Express versions years ago.

      • Dominic NahousMicrosoft employee 0

        Hi Roberto – have you reported or voted on the issues that affect your productivity on Developer Community? That’s the best way to help us gather knowledge of issues the community is facing and help us prioritize fixes.

  • Peter Desimone 0

    The update went well.

    So I opened an SLN to a project I have to work on. I am about to review a file for a potential change, and guess what, the “17.3 What’s New” is in my face.

    Find a better way.

    If I open VS without a SLN or Project, IMO, throw your crap in my face at that point. Not any other time.

    • Grace TaylorMicrosoft employee 0

      Hi there, thank you for your feedback on What’s New. We are in the process of exploring different presentations and will continue to experiment.

  • Norman Kirkby 0

    Are the major issues with Intel OneAPI fixed?

  • Martin Miller 0

    Upgraded to 17.3 and now I can’t save my solution. I’m prompted to save the .sln file, then asked if I should overwrite it, then get an unexpected error.

    • Jeff RobisonMicrosoft employee 0

      Martin, is it just the .sln file or all files that fail to save? Could you log feedback in a VS session where the unexpected error occurs and reply here with a link to the feedback?

  • George Beier 0

    I can’t seem to publish anymore. 🙁 It gets almost all the way through the publish and then I get an “asset synchronization” error. Does anyone know how to roll back to the previous version?

  • Tino DonderwinkelMicrosoft employee 0

    With this new version, it appears I can no longer run VS as a Dpi Unaware process when the projects are Dpi Aware.
    The designed will through an exception, and the visual designer for my Windows Forms no longer work.

    I have removed the registry setting that runs VS in Dpi Unaware mode, which fixes the issue of the designed crashing, but now my forms are messed up after compilation.

    Is this a ‘feature’ or an ‘issue’?

    I want to be able to properly edit Windows Forms using the designed.

    • Devendar Reddy AMicrosoft employee 0

      Hello Tino, this should be certainly an issue. Can you please open an issue here: https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues with further details requested in the issue templates in that repo?

    • Devendar Reddy AMicrosoft employee 0

      This is being addressed in the next release of Visual Studio (17.4). Thanks Tino for providing detailed information on the issue.

  • kevin mungame 0

    After upgrading and adding MAUI Tools, MAUI templates are not available ?

    • kevin mungame 0

      Added xamarin MAUI installer options and now I see the MAUI templates. Thanks

  • Brandon Studio 0

    Does Blend support MAUI?

  • Paul Bentley 0

    The Razor editor still has so many issues. If you have a script tag with razor syntax inside, the auto formatting just stops. This makes it so difficult to work with.

    • Marco Aurélio Ribeiro 0

      I’m also getting issues with Razor editor. A lot of Blazor components (ErrorBoundary, for instance) are showing CS8625 warnings (cannot convert null literal to non-nullable reference type) in places where they didn’t use to.

      EDIT: Just found out that if I change my @ref field to nullable (“ErrorBoundary?”) the warnings are gone. Not sure now if this is a bug or a feature. 🙂

  • Geoffrey Angapa 0

    Greetings,

    Thanks for the new version. This is my first time posting here and I’m not sure if it’s the right place, so apologies in advance. Will importing of VC++ 6 dsp projects ever be added to VS2022? It used to work in 2019. I remember reading online that the legacy code to do so wasn’t ported when the IDE switched to 64-bit. I believe it would be a fantastic feature to have in 2022 and would encourage people to migrate legacy projects over. Whereas now, they’d have to go through 2019, then up to 2022, and that means more steps in the process.

    Either way, thanks for the great work, and have a good day.

    • Geoffrey Angapa 0

      When compiling an MFC project, targeting Windows XP with the v141_xp toolset now fails.

      E_BOUNDS, used in AtlThrow in atlsimpcoll.h, is undeclared.

      Thank you.

    • olgaarkMicrosoft employee 0

      Hi Geoffrey,
      No, dsp support is deprecated in VS 2022 and there are no plans to add it back currently. The dsp format was used “natively” only by VC6 (i.e. more than 20 years ago) and all subsequent VS versions converted it to other formats, which conversion/upgrade is still fully supported.

      Can you tell us why you use dsp as a primary project format and not the converted (say by VS2019) vcxproj?

      • Geoffrey Angapa 0

        Hello,

        The thing is, I was using VC6 for a long time and only recently converted my project to vcxproj, using VS2019. It went over easily, with hardly any changes. At any rate, I still have other VC6 projects that I haven’t converted yet, so what I’ll do is install VS2019 and migrate them over, eventually.

        My thinking was, I’m sure there are other DSP projects out there in the world, and though it’s extra maintenence on Microsoft’s part, it would be a convenience to have the facility in 2022.

  • Maxim Volkov 0

    In the list of Preview Features there’s this one:

    Intellitest support for Net6 using Z3 v4 (requires restart) /
    Enable dev17 implementation of Intellitest to support NetFx and Net6

    But enabling this feature (and restarting Visual Studio) doesn’t make any difference: there’s no IntelliTest option for .Net 6.

    How does this preview feature work?

    • John FleisherMicrosoft employee 0

      We are finalizing the inclusion of this feature with symbol publishing, etc. It will show up in internal preview as “Intellitest (Preview)” menu in the editor context when we complete all insertions. I’d expect this in internal previews pretty soon. Sorry for the confusion.

  • Leif Peterson 0

    The paths to my references were all blank, as well as the lack of Nuget mgmt based on the reported fault from setup & deployment 2022. It’s a nasty bug, which for me resulted in more widespread phenomena. I had to go back to 17.2.

  • Karlton Kemerait 0

    Issue with latest update, Release/17.3.0+32804.467

    I had a vb project consisting of several libraries all targeting NET6.0 one was a winforms project and the other a windows controls class library, after the update none of the controls from the class library appeared in the toolbox for the winforms project. I did and checked the following:

    1. Winforms project has proper reference to Controls lib
    2. Winforms has global namespace reference set to control library
    3. everything compiles correctly
    4. restarted PC and VS
    5. Tried creating a new controls lib but to no avail
    6. reset toolbox
    7. tried to add directly to toolbox by choosing and got this error msg ” targets a platform whose toolbox items cannot be enumerated dynamically.”
    8. double checked control library type and it IS Windows control library targeting NET6.0

    Everything worked fine before the update. Any thoughts or suggestions??

    Below is VS info and system info and project properties , but I don’t think any help will be found there…..

    Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022
    Version 17.3.0
    VisualStudio.17.Release/17.3.0+32804.467
    Microsoft .NET Framework
    Version 4.8.04161

    • Olia GavryshMicrosoft employee 0

      Thank you very much for the feedback! Our team will look at it. Meanwhile could you please report this issue via Visual Studio feedback channel (“Send Feedback” icon with a person in the top right corner), this way we’ll get more information and be able to track it easily!

      Thank you!

  • Marek Lisztwan 0

    Opening solution with 300+ projects causes VS to go Not Responding for a ~5 minutes while VS 17.2 took around 10 seconds.
    Even solution with with 3 projects takes unusual long time.

    • David Rapaň 0

      Me too!

      Preview versions of both 17.3 and 17.4 were without this issue.

  • Tim Boyden 0

    Have to say this really blows that Arm support didn’t make it into the 17.3.1 release after using 17.3 Preview for a number of months. Guess I am going to have to go back to using a VM. Want to try and embrace MAUI but this constant slippage by Microsoft has me close to re-considering other options.

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