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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!

Optimizing toolbars for your workflow

August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. I love Visual Studio. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my various development workflows—I personalized it. Just like I would with a home in ...

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 ...

Revamped Project Properties UI

August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

McKenna Barlow

In Visual Studio 2022 we are improving your experiences around navigating and modifying your project's properties. The world of .NET is in a very different place than it was a few years ago. With a growing diverse user-base and increasingly cross-platform projects, we decided that the Visual Studio project properties were due for a much-needed...

Flexible theming capabilities for Visual Studio 

August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

Grace Taylor

If you're like me, maybe you feel like customizing Visual Studio so that your workflow suits your habits in just the right way. Here are a few updates in Visual Studio 2022 that can help with that! We’ve introduced the ability to sync your Visual Studio theme with your Windows theme so that reading can become easier depending on the amount ...

Improving developer security with Visual Studio 2022

August 17, 2021 Aug 17, 2021 08/17/21

Ruben Rios

Software developers are increasingly being targeted by malware. Recent incidents include Nobelium, Octopus Scanner, and ZINC. To reduce the risk of open-source library adoption in the face of such attacks, developers need a toolchain that assists them in evaluating untrusted content. In Visual Studio 2022 we've been focused on developer and...

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

The New JavaScript/TypeScript Experience in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3

August 12, 2021 Aug 12, 2021 08/12/21

Gabrielle Crevecoeur

Today we are excited to announce a new experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers in Visual Studio.  We are bringing new tooling to enhance the experience for SPA applications and front-end development. What’s New? With Visual Studio 2022, we really wanted to make our JavaScript & TypeScript experience shine. We spoke with ...

Multi-repo Support in Visual Studio

August 11, 2021 Aug 11, 2021 08/11/21

Taysser Gherfal

Have you ever needed to work on a solution with projects hosted on different Git repositories? Previously, you had to either use multiple instances of Visual Studio or rely on external Git tools. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, you can enable the multi-repo support preview feature which will enable you to work with a single ...

Personalize Your Visual Studio 2022

August 11, 2021 Aug 11, 2021 08/11/21

Grace Taylor

One of Visual Studio’s core goals is to increase your individual and team productivity. And, one of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible, so that you can make the IDE your own. Below, we'll summarize some of the personalization features we’ve shipped in our preview channel or plan to ship soon...