We are excited to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio 2022! Preview Release 1 is the first ever 64-bit Visual Studio offering improved extensibility. Starting with Preview 2, we have focused on providing new features on topics such as individual and team productivity, modern development, and continuous innovation. In this article, we’ll focus on some of the new features of Visual Studio 2022. We want you to download it, try it out, tell us what you think, and work with us to shape the next version of Visual Studio. Download Visual Studio 2022 preview
Developed for you
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. At The Visual Studio team, we are committed to fulfilling this mission for developers. The first preview of our Visual Studio 2022 includes a new, easier to read font Cascadia Code. In our second preview release, we’ve improved Visual Studio usability for everyone with clearer, more easily distinguishable update ICONS.
Developing modern applications
Applications and the developers who build them are critical to the success of every company. As part of the digital transformation, businesses expect more from their applications. Meeting these expectations means building applications with the latest technology. Visual Studio 2022 has both tools to help support existing applications and tools to help you create new ones. Ultimately, we want to bring success to you, your business and your customers. Preview 2 ships with the latest version (v143) of the C++ build tools, which are compatible with other 14x tool binaries. These tools are available for Visual Studio and a separate build tool installer. Updating your C++ applications to use the latest C++ 20 features should be frictionless.
In addition to being the best place to develop modern Windows applications using C++, we have added features that make Visual Studio the best place to build cross-platform applications. With Preview 2, we have extended the cross-platform functionality by adding new CMake integration to WSL2 without manual configuration.
For.NET developers, Visual Studio 2022 will be the place where you build the next wave of cross-platform applications using.NET MAUI and Blazor.
Individual and team productivity
Just as we areThe Visual Studio 2022 Vision blogAn important area for us is to provide innovative capabilities for innovative development. Starting with Preview 2, you’ll see new productivity features in Visual Studio. As developers, most of the time we spend building applications is spent iterating over the changes and running the application to check for those changes. The process is time-consuming and frustrating. Sometimes it can take a few minutes to make the simplest changes. Preview 2 provides a new live Preview experience for XAML and Web applications. You will be able to make these iterative changes to your application in the editor and see the differences in real time. Like when you just want to tweak something a pixel or two, there’s no need to recompile and run!
Innovation is within reach
We have toVisual Studio 2022 VisionAnother key part of this is unleashing your potential as a truly innovative developer. In Preview 1, we providedIntelliCode complete the entire line. In preview 2, we are updating Hot Reload to include support for C++ applications! With hot overloading, you can edit C++ or.net projects while the application is running. In many cases, you can apply these code changes without pausing the application. To use hot overloads on a running application, select the Apply Code Changes button in the toolbar.
How to help preview Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is free for anyone to use during Preview. We encourage you to download and use the preview as you would with Visual Studio 2019. (You can also install them side by side if you wish.) And let us know how it goes. We thank you for everything you’ve shared with us through the developer community, reporting questions, and surveys. Your comments help us make Visual Studio 2022 the best developer experience for you. If you have any technical questions, you are also welcome to visit our Microsoft Q&A forum.