{"id":236019,"date":"2021-12-16T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=236019"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:19:26","slug":"were-upgrading-visual-studios-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/were-upgrading-visual-studios-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re upgrading Visual Studio\u2019s feedback!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Visual Studio is a customer driven tool, our team is dedicated to exploring and learning what challenges you may be facing so we can help. To provide the highest quality of feedback we are upgrading our system, which means older versions of Visual Studio will no longer be compatible to provide feedback. If you want to continue to submit feedback, please <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/install\/update-visual-studio\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">upgrade<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to 16.7 or any LTSC service release after April 2021. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/developer-community.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236021 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/developer-community.png\" alt=\"Image developer community\" width=\"720\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/developer-community.png 720w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/developer-community-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We strive to have a transparent and collaborative relationship with our users to offer the best developer experience inside and out of Visual Studio. We encourage users to provide feedback on our primary tool <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/search?space=8\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Developer Community,<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> where we receive 3000 feedback items every month. This is the best way to directly reach our engineering teams and ensure that your feedback item will be seen, read, and taken action on. In addition, we receive hundreds of feedback items from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisualStudio\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VisualStudio\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Visual Studio Blog<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, various conferences and online events, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/visualstudio\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/microsoft-visual-studio\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and more so feel free to get involved there too!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We want to offer the best customer experience when giving feedback and make sure that your voice can be heard. For this reason, we are choosing to upgrade our <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Send Feedback <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">options available in the help menu and feedback center:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/Help-menu-send-feedback.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-236023 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/Help-menu-send-feedback.png\" alt=\"Image Help menu send feedback\" width=\"625\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/Help-menu-send-feedback.png 724w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/12\/Help-menu-send-feedback-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This new system will make it much easier for our engineering teams to track, organize and transfer tickets.\u00a0Our main goal is to have the best communication between our users and the Visual Studio engineering teams as we head into the future. We are expecting\u00a0this will increase our responsiveness to issues and in turn give the user a much better experience.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This new system does come with a cost. Moving to this new system has made these versions unable to submit feedback for the <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Send Feedback <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">options:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">15.9.0 &#8211; 15.9.34<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16.4.0 &#8211; 16.4.20<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16.5.0 &#8211; 16.6.X<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is hard for us to make the decision not to support certain versions of Visual Studio, however, with the increase in productivity and scalability that this new system offers we feel it is the right decision for our product. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If you would like to continue to provide feedback and see Visual Studio grow, please <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/install\/update-visual-studio\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">upgrade<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to 16.7 or any LTSC service release after April 2021.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio is a customer driven tool, our team is dedicated to exploring and learning what challenges you may be facing so we can help. 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