What’s New in Visual Studio: Make it Your Home
Grace Taylor
Visual Studio 2022 features an array of improvements during each major and minor release, and we know that you may not have a lot of time to find and try them after each update. We also heard from the developer community that you’d like an easy way to keep up with new Visual Studio capabilities that could be useful in your day-to-day work.
That’s why we’ve put together a selection of features for you to play with, right within Visual Studio during each release. What’s New in Visual Studio is available in Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 1 and 2 in English locales.
Try new Visual Studio features
After updating Visual Studio, a selection of new features will appear. Select a feature for further detail.
From there, you’ll be able to try the given feature, either by selecting “Enable” or if it is already on by default, you’ll be able to learn more about its capabilities.
After you’ve closed the What’s New feature, you may find it again under the Help > What’s New menu item.
Share your thoughts
Please feel free to give the latest features a try and let us know what you think, by sharing feedback on Developer Community or voting on a request that resonates.
18 comments
I’m gonna share my thoughts, indeed. 17.2.1 introduced a bug for people having more than one MS account. Today I installed 17.2.4, just in the hope… I ended up with 83 errors in a stable project, since somehow Microsoft managed to botch all of their code analyzers. I wasted almost half an hour repairing the installation and restoring my settings. That’s what I call Progress With A Capital P. Glad you have now a Visual Studio for Mac and for ARM. Couldn’t wait to share all these joys with those other users.
Hey Ian! Do you mind expanding on what’s the 17.2.1 multi-account problem you are facing? Is the problem still present in the 17.2.4 build?
It’s this issue: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Visual-Studio-2022-172-Pick-an-account/10037718
Yep, still present in 17.2.4. Not enough votes to consider it a priority before 17.3. The new bug in 17.2.4 was “solved” by reinstalling, by the way.
Thanks for the context, Ian. I have good news. That issue has been fixed in 17.3 (it should not repro on the latest 17.3 preview builds) and the team is exploring to backport the change to 17.2 as well.
Thanks for the fast answer, Ruben. I’ll keep an eye on the update. In any case, I’m eagerly waiting for 17.3 for starting with MAUI.
I love the new start page. VisualStudio is always changing (usually for the better!) and having this start page will really help me keep up. Thank you for listening to community requests to make new features easier to discover.
Oh, is there a new start page? Probably I was so pissed off after reinstalling that I didn’t pay attention to it. Next time, I promise.
And what about fixing some ridiculous but annoying bugs? For example VS does not install if user name contains unicode characters. The installer just silently ends. Try user name Matěj.
Awesome
What I don’t understand that a GA workload like Maui is part of a 17.3 preview product???
Apart from that I love the what’s new feature and should have been there ages ago … but keep solving bugs 😜
Will a Linux version ever see the light of day?
Never. VS is built using wpf afaik and wpf has strong dependency on windows to the point it is infeasible to port it to any other OS. The best you can get is to move to VS Code but thats not the same obviously.
Visual Studio also runs on [Mac](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/). Clearly WPF isn’t the issue here. It is more likely the ROI.
VS Code is the non-Windows preferred IDE. There is a discussion (including feedback request for Linux) [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/177175/visual-studio-for-linux.html).
Another alternative is [Github Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces) which is a cloud-based IDE. It has merged with what was called Visual Studio Online/Codespaces to allow for IDE development in the cloud.
Quick note: Visual Studio on Mac was rebranded from Xamarin Studio. I’d imagine they could port over that version to linux with enough development time and budget compared to VS on Windows, but given how much they advertise WSL it’s rather unlikely.
Please add a way to remotely debug .NET apps on Linux that combines building, publishing, running, and attaching in one seemless step, in the same way it works in Visual Studio 2008 when remotely debugging Windows CE devices. Thank you.
Good Evening Kosovo Sir/Lady, Amazing Feautures Available on @VisualStudio2022. I’m excited , C’mon Developers,
” FANTASTIC ”
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I never get used to the rude way that some people have to comment here. Don’t care about the rude reviews. That kind of person doesn’t deserve attention. By the way, nice new functionality!
Not on 17.2.5 it isn’t. No what’s new anywhere.