Visual Studio Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 now available!

Mads Kristensen August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

We are excited to announce the third preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 3 there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog we’re going to highlight a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3. We’d love for you ...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.11 is Available Now!

Mads Kristensen August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.11 GA. This release improves upon the Git tooling experience in Visual Studio, enables Hot Reload for .NET applications, adds convenient links to the help menu, and upgrades LLVM tools to LLVM 12. For full details, see the Visual Studio 2019 release notes. Servicing ...

Load Only the Projects You Need with Solution Filters

Kira Weiss August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21

You, like many other developers, may work in very large codebases that contain hundreds or thousands of projects in a single Visual Studio solution. However, you may only work with a few of those projects and their dependencies. Our Visual Studio team has seen multiple approaches that developers use to only load and work in the projects that ...

Speed up your .NET and C++ development with Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022

Dmitry Lyalin July 29, 2021 Jul 29, 2021 07/29/21

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 we’d like to use this blog post to dive deeper into the brand-new Hot Reload experience which works for both managed .NET and newly supported native C++ apps. With Hot Reload our goal is to save you as many app restarts between edits as possible, making you more productive by ...

Join the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Private Preview

Jordan Matthiesen July 21, 2021 Jul 21, 2021 07/21/21

Today we’re inviting you to try out Visual Studio 2022 for Mac as we share our first private preview release. This is the first release of our .NET IDE with a refreshed, fully native macOS UI. We’d love for you to download it, try it out, and share your feedback to help us shape the next major release of Visual Studio for Mac. The ...

Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21

In this post we have introduced, and demonstrated, the new Web Forms Designer and Web Live Preview that is built into Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2. We are very excited to bring a new designer for Web Forms. We would love for you to try out this new designer experience and let us know how it’s working for you with your own projects and solution

Debug code with force run to cursor

Harshada Hole July 15, 2021 Jul 15, 2021 07/15/21

Starting Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 you can use "Force Run To Cursor". It is like "Run To Cursor," but you can keep your breakpoints and the debugger will skip over them until it reaches the line of code with the cursor. It will also skip any of the first-chance exceptions break conditions that may occur.