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WinForms Designer Selection for 32-bit .NET Framework Projects 

February 29, 2024 Feb 29, 2024 02/29/24

Shyam Gupta

(image) Visual Studio 2022’s transition to a 64-bit architecture, driven by customer feedback across the full range of Visual Studio developers, marked a pivotal step towards enhancing the development experience. As Klaus Loffelmann describes in his blog post, this transition enhances overall performance and responsiveness, particularly ...

Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)

February 26, 2024 Feb 26, 2024 02/26/24

Jason Chlus

In 2023, we added many new features, fixes, and improvements to Visual Studio 2022 to make your coding experience more productive, enjoyable, and accessible. This blog post looks back at all the notable enhancements that shipped in 2023 for Visual Studio 2022. Here are the recaps for the year...

A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

February 23, 2024 Feb 23, 2024 02/23/24

Jason Chlus , David Li

Game development is evolving rapidly and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. I’m thrilled that David Li took the time to highlight all the improvements added to Visual Studio for game developers during 2023. Check out his blog here.  The Unreal Engine integrations are where my eyes jumped to first. There is now an Unreal Engine...

Using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio: Generate code, fix functions, and more..

February 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024 02/22/24

Sinem Akinci

GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for users with an active subscription. Copilot Chat is an AI pair-programmer that allows you to speak in natural language through the chat interface to accomplish programming tasks such as understanding sections of code, generating test cases, and generating code. We ...

A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9

February 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024 02/21/24

Maia Kelner

Over the last year, we’ve been building a better Extension Manager for Visual Studio that makes it easier for you to find and install great extensions. Along the way, we’ve invited Visual Studio Preview users to try out the new design and share their feedback with us. Using all that amazing feedback, we added features, made improvements, ...

VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio!

February 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024 02/20/24

Maia Kelner

The new VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK helps you build extensions that run outside of the main IDE process for improved performance and reliability. With a focus on developer productivity, it features a modern, intuitive .NET Core-based API and solid, well-maintained documentation. This public preview release builds on our previous ...

Last Chance: Visual Studio LIVE! – Las Vegas

February 16, 2024 Feb 16, 2024 02/16/24

Jim Harrer

Less than 3 weeks to go! Join Us at Visual Studio LIVE! Las Vegas Are you at the forefront of driving business innovation using Visual Studio? With our room block running low, decide today to secure your spot at Visual Studio LIVE! Las Vegas. This event is your prime opportunity to enhance your skills and gain insights into new technologies, ...

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here!

February 14, 2024 Feb 14, 2024 02/14/24

Mark Downie

We're excited to introduce the first preview of Visual Studio 17.10! This is where we get to show you what we've been working on and what we’re planning, and with feedback from the most active developer community on the planet, we get to deliver truly compelling products. During this release you’ll get to check out our latest ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Now Available

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

Maddy Montaquila

Welcome to Visual Studio 2022 17.9! This release comes with more capabilities and improvements that enhance productivity for you and your team, such as AI-assistance and better extensibility. Plus, we're always improving core productivity and performance! We’ve included suggestions from you in the community and are publishing more about our ...

A Look Back: Visual Studio’s Profiling Tool Advancements in 2023

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

Harshada Hole

In retrospect, the past year our team was on a mission to enhance Profiling tools, making them more efficient and user-friendly. We improved instrumentation and our .NET counter tool, broadened platform support, seamlessly integrated unit test profiling, and boosted overall performance. Your valuable feedback via Developer Community was ...