One month ago, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1, the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. Microsoft said in a related blog post that it will release more new features and performance improvements starting with Preview 2.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is here! This release focuses on delivering new features in terms of individual and team productivity, modern development, and continuous innovation.

Download address: https://aka.ms/vs2022preview

Let’s take a look at some of the new features in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2.

Icons updated, fully localized, support more than a dozen languages

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 introduces a new, more readable font called Cascadia Code. In the Preview 2 release, the Visual Studio team updated the ICONS to make them clearer and more distinguishable to improve the usability of Visual Studio for everyone.

Preview 1 was released only in English, and Preview 2 was fully localized. Users can choose from more than a dozen language packages: English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Develop modern applications

Preview 2 comes with the latest version (v143) of the C++ Build Tools, which are binary-compatible with other 14x Tools and are available in Visual Studio as well as in the standalone Build Tools installer. In addition, you can smoothly update your C++ applications to take advantage of the latest C++ 20 features.

In addition to making it easier to develop modern Windows applications using C++, Preview 2 adds features to better build cross-platform applications. With Preview 2, Visual Studio extends its cross-platform capabilities by adding new CMake integration and seamless WSL2 positioning, which eliminates the need for manual configuration.

For.NET developers, Visual Studio 2022 will be the place to build the next batch of cross-platform applications using.NET Maui and Blazor.

Improve personal and team productivity: Support real-time preview, debug code more efficiently

Preview 2 provides a new real-time Preview experience for XAML and web applications. Users can make iterative changes to the application in the editor and view them in real time. If the user only wants to move a pixel or two, he doesn’t have to recompile and run it.

The new Web Live Preview adds tools to make Web design easier. Users can view changes in real time in the IDE, even with data-bound controls.

In addition, Visual Studio provides new features to help users debug code more efficiently. The new debug command Force Run allows you to Run the application to a specific point and ignore any other breakpoints or exceptions.

Innovation at hand: Update Hot Reload to support C++

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 has updated Hot Reload to include support for C++ applications. With Hot Reload, users can edit C++ or.NET projects while the application is running. In many cases, users can apply code changes without pausing the application by selecting the Apply Code Changes button in the toolbar.

More details about Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en…

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