Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2022

Microsoft said today that it will release the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 this summer ahead of an expected late 2021 release. And it looks like a major refresh.

“The next major release of Visual Studio will be faster, more approachable, and more lightweight, designed for both learners and those building industrial-scale solutions,” Microsoft corporate vice president Amanda Silver notes in the announcement. “For the first time ever, Visual Studio will be 64-bit. The user experience will feel cleaner, intelligent, and action-oriented.”

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Among the changes coming in this release are:

64-bit. Finally, Visual Studio becomes 64-bit, gaining support for over 4 GB of RAM in the main application process. “With a 64-bit Visual Studio on Windows, you can open, edit, run, and debug even the biggest and most complex solutions without running out of memory,” Ms. Silver says, adding that, yes, you will still be able to develop 32-bit apps if needed.

Refreshed user experience. Microsoft says it has reduced complexity and decreased the cognitive load throughout the Visual Studio 2022 UI while making cosmetic and accessibility improvements. There are new icons, a new fixed-width coding font called Cascadia Code, new and improved application themes, and more.

Personalization. It’s not clear how yet, but Visual Studio 2022 will make it easier than ever for developers to customize the integrated development environment (IDE) to their exact needs.

Modern app development support. Visual Studio 2022 will support the creation of modern, cloud-based applications with Azure; .NET 6 apps including .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) and ASP.NET Blazor-based .NET MAUI desktop apps; and C++ 20, with its new language features and improved support for Linux apps.

More. There’s a lot more, including new functionality related to diagnostics and debugging, real-time collaboration, the AI IntelliCode engine, asynchronous collaboration, and code search.

Visual Studio for Mac. On the Mac, Visual Studio is moving to a new native user interface with better performance and reliability. The product will take full advantage of all macOS accessibility features, will offer more visual consistency with the Windows version, and will provide a new Git experience with the introduction of the Git Changes tool window.

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  • Benjamin Perdomo

    19 April, 2021 - 11:47 am

    <p>Cascadia Code is not new. It was created for Windows Terminal, as its default font.</p>

    • spiderman2

      20 April, 2021 - 8:55 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#623721">In reply to BenjaminPerdomo:</a></em></blockquote><p>yup, and I already use it in VS and VS Code since than</p>

  • olditpro2000

    Premium Member
    19 April, 2021 - 12:50 pm

    <p>I had no idea Visual Studio was still 32-bit…</p>

    • iantrem

      Premium Member
      19 April, 2021 - 1:12 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#623745">In reply to OldITPro2000:</a></em></blockquote><p>I think Visual Studio Code is 64-bit but the main product isn't.</p><p><br></p><p>Hopefully they'll streamline the different product editions, hardly any difference between professional and community but a huge feature gap between professional and enterprise.</p>

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        20 April, 2021 - 3:02 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#623753">In reply to iantrem:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yes, but VS Code is to Visual Studio what a Chevrolet Matiz is to a Camaro. It might have a modern chassis, but it still isn't the real thing. ;-)</p>

  • eric_rasmussen

    Premium Member
    19 April, 2021 - 1:33 pm

    <p>This is exciting. In my opinion there is no better development environment than Visual Studio, particularly for .NET development and debugging.</p>

  • TheFerrango

    19 April, 2021 - 2:28 pm

    <p>I clearly remember a 64 bit edition of either VS 2008 or VS 2010. </p><p><br></p><p>I wonder what actually changed back then</p>

  • rmac

    19 April, 2021 - 2:45 pm

    <p>a cross platform UI like Flutter would reduce the complexity admirably…</p>

    • fishnet37222

      Premium Member
      19 April, 2021 - 2:48 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#623765">In reply to rmac:</a></em></blockquote><p>I don't think Flutter can do the TDI that Visual Studio currently uses, and I would not want to see that interface go away.</p>

  • nbplopes

    19 April, 2021 - 3:05 pm

    <p>The only reason I don’t touch Blazor and MAUI at the moment its because of MS history in abandoning stuff. Some C# heads maybe amazed on what was shown … but most of the stuff I saw presented we already been using for some years not … yet in other in other languages.</p><p><br></p><p>If this sticks … I might come back … but no early adopter here.</p>

    • rmac

      19 April, 2021 - 3:32 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#623768">In reply to nbplopes:</a></em></blockquote><p>MS need to park up WinForms &amp; WPF with .NET 5 and create VS with a cross-platform UI to show off their own dog-food, which in fairness they're pretty good at.</p>

  • Usman

    Premium Member
    19 April, 2021 - 4:12 pm

    <p>Hope this means resharper can finally run smoothly in vs instead of causing it to make vs lag</p>

  • samp

    19 April, 2021 - 4:20 pm

    <p>I downloaded it, and saw I needed 15gb to get what I needed, and deleted it. I doubt the improvements will make it lighter either. I will have to wait till I can afford my dream computer with 4TB…</p><p><br></p><p>Edit: VS as whole, not the new one – sorry for the confusion</p>

    • george_semple

      19 April, 2021 - 7:33 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#623775"><em>In reply to samp:</em></a>Care to share the URL? According to Microsoft, its not yet available to download a preview.</blockquote><p><br></p>

    • spiderman2

      20 April, 2021 - 8:54 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#623775">In reply to samp:</a></em></blockquote><p>trolling attempt detected, try again</p>

  • lilmoe

    19 April, 2021 - 9:07 pm

    <p>All new Visual Studio. So great it still gets a 'Not Responding' when loading projects. Sigh, I really don't know if I should laugh or cry… fp.</p>

  • KingPCGeek

    Premium Member
    19 April, 2021 - 11:39 pm

    <p>I use about 1% of the features of VS. But one feature removed from VS19 that keeps me on 17 is Copy Website. Would be nice if 22 brought that back along without a few less Not Respondings. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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