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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out!

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21
Sachin Thakur
We’re excited to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio 2022! Preview 1 was the first-ever 64-bit Visual Studio, delivering improved scalability. Starting with Preview 2, we’re focusing on delivering new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog we...

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21
Sachin Thakur
Visual Studio 2022 introduces a native WSL 2 toolset for C++ development. This toolset is available now in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2. WSL 2 is the new, recommended version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture that provides better Linux file system performance, GUI support, and full system call compatibility...

Debug code with force run to cursor

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21
Sachin Thakur
Have you ever had an experience when breakpoints in your application cause some disruption in your debugging, because you may need to test your updated code or focus on another area that does not need those break conditions? Starting Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2, you can use “Force Run To Cursor”, for these scenarios. It is like “Run To ...

.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance

July 2, 2021 Jul 2, 2021 07/2/21
Sachin Thakur
With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up ...

Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

July 2, 2021 Jul 2, 2021 07/2/21
Sachin Thakur
So you’re ready to level up your debugging skills with Unity and Visual Studio? Check out our new video series in this playlist: Beginner Series: Intro to Visual Studio Tooling for Unity. This series focuses on common Unity troubleshooting scenarios and how you can use Visual Studio to find and fix them...

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Sachin Thakur
We’re excited to announce that the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022 is ready to install! This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio with your feedback...

Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Sachin Thakur
IntelliCode now predicts the next chunk of code based on your current context, and presents it as an inline suggestion to the right of your cursor. If you like it, just hit tab-tab to accept it; otherwise simply keep on typing to adjust the completion further...

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 5

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Sachin Thakur
We are thrilled to release .NET 6 Preview 5. We’re now in the second-half of the .NET 6 release, and starting to see significant features coming together. A great example is .NET SDK Workloads, which is the foundation of our .NET unification vision and enables supporting more application types. Like other features, it is coming together to...